Sanna Askelöf

Sanna Askelöf
Personal information
Full name Sanna Maria Karolin Askelöf
Nationality  Sweden
Born 5 February 1983
Stockholm, Sweden
Height 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight 52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport Judo
Event(s) 52 kg
Club IK Södra

Sanna Maria Karolin Askelöf (born February 5, 1983 in Stockholm) is a Swedish judoka who competed in the women's half-lightweight category.[1] Being raised by a Swedish father and a Norwegian mother and holding a dual citizenship to compete internationally, Askelof held five national senior titles in her own division, picked up a total of twenty-eight medals in her career, and represented her paternal nation Sweden in the 52-kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[2] Throughout most of her sporting career until 2009, Askelof trained as a full-fledged member of the judo squad for Södra Sports Club (Swedish: Idrotts Klubb Södra, IK Södra) in Farsta.[3]

Askelof qualified as a lone judoka for the Swedish squad in the women's half-lightweight class (52 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by placing third from the A-Tournament in Tallinn, Estonia.[2][4] She lost her opening match to Cuba's Amarilis Savón, who successfully scored an ippon and gripped her with a kuzure kami shiho gatame (broken upper four-quarter hold down) at one minute and twenty-seven seconds.[5] In the repechage, Askelof mounted her strength on the tatami to outscore and pin South Korea's Lee Eun-hee thirty-seven seconds into the match, but slipped her medal chance away in a defeat to Belgian judoka and eventual bronze medalist Ilse Heylen by a waza-ari awasete ippon point and a kesa-gatame (scarf hold).[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Sanna Askelöf". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Judoutövande växer - men saknar spets" [Judo rises, but lacks training and exercise] (in Swedish). Svenska Dagbladet. 22 July 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "SM-silver i Judo till Emmylie Nordh" [Silver medal for Emmylie Nordh at the Swedish Judo Champs] (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 26 March 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  4. ↑ "Här börjar svenska klassresan mot Aten" [Swedes begin their trip to Athens] (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. 8 August 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "Cuba conquistó dos medallas de bronce en judo; Japón obtuvo otra de oro" [Cuba has won two bronze medals in judo; Japan adds another gold] (in Spanish). La Jornada. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Judo: Women's Half-Lightweight (52kg/115 lbs) Repechage Round 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "Ilse Heylen offre une seconde médaille à la Belgique" [Ilse Heylen notches a second medal for Belgium] (in French). La Libre Belgique. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2014.

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