Ahn Byeong-keun

Korean spelling
Hangeul	안병근
Hanja	安 柄 根
Revised Romanization	To Byeong-geun
McCune- Reischauer	To Byŏng-kŭn
See also : Korean name

Ahn Byeong-keun (born February 23, 1962 ) is a former South Korean judoka . He was Olympic champion in 1984 and lightweight world champion in 1985.

The 1.72 m tall ancestor Byeong-keun defeated the Japanese Hidetoshi Nakanishi in the quarter-finals of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and the British Kerrith Brown in the semi-finals . In the final he defeated the Italian Olympic champion from 1980 Ezio Gamba in a fight over seven minutes with a coca rating. At the 1985 World Championships in Seoul , Ahn Byeong-keun defeated the Japanese Takahiro Nishida in the quarter-finals , and in the semifinals he won against Steffen Stranz from the Federal Republic of Germany. In the final, he defeated Mike Swain from the United States. A year after the World Championships, the 1986 Asian Games also took place in Seoul. Ahn Byeong-keun defeated the Japanese Yukiharu Yoshitaka in the final .

In 1988 Ahn Byeong-keun no longer competed in the lightweight, but in the light middleweight division. In this weight class he won the Hungaria Cup in Budapest in March 1988. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , the South Korean won his first fight against the Belgian Johan Laats through Ippon. In his second fight he was eliminated from the Canadian Kevin Doherty .

Web links

• Ahn Byeong-keun in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Tournament results at judoinside.com

Footnotes

1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 953
2. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
3. ↑ 1986 Asian Games in judoinside.com
4. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 107

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Ahn is the family name here, Byeomgkeun is the first name.