Ben Sonnemans

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Bernardus "Ben" Jacobus Maria Sonnemans (born January 13, 1972 in Haarlem ) is a former Dutch judoka . He was European champion in 1997 and also won two bronze medals at European championships.

Career

The 1.90 m tall Ben Sonnemans competed in the weight class up to 86 kilograms until 1992 . In 1991 and 1992 he was fifth at the Junior European Championships, and in 1992 he also finished fifth at the Junior World Championships.

In 1993 he switched to light heavyweight, the weight class up to 95 kilograms. At the World Championships in 1993 , he finished seventh. In 1994 at the European Championships he was defeated in the semifinals to the Poles Paweł Nastula , the battle for bronze he lost to the Russian Dmitri Sergejew . The following year he entered the open class at the European Championships in Birmingham. In the semifinals he was defeated by the Hungarian Imre Csősz , with a victory over the Spaniard Ernesto Pérez Sonnemans won a bronze medal. At the 1995 World Championships in Chiba, Sonnemans went back to the light heavyweight division, he lost in the quarter-finals to Dmitri Sergeyev and finished seventh after a defeat by the French Stéphane Traineau .

The European Championships in 1996 took place in The Hague. Sonnemans lost in the round of 16 against the Portuguese Pedro Soares and then won against the German Axel Lobenstein and the Hungarian Antal Kovács in the round of hope . In the battle for bronze he was defeated by the French Ghislain Lemaire . Two months later at the Olympic Games in Atlanta he defeated the Briton Raymond Stevens in the round of 16 . In the quarterfinals he was defeated by the South Korean Kim Min-soo by Waza-ari. In the hope round, Sonnemans beat the Russian Dmitri Sergejew after ten seconds and the Japanese Yoshio Nakamura by referee decision. So he had reached the battle for bronze, which he lost after 2:47 minutes against the Brazilian Aurélio Miguel .

At the European Championships in 1997 in Ostend, Sonnemans defeated the Portuguese Pedro Soares in the semifinals and became European champion by defeating the French Ghislain Lemaire. In the same year Sonnemans was also team European champion with the Dutch team and at the end of November he won the title at the military world championships. From 1998 the upper weight limit in the light heavyweight division was 100 kilograms. At the European Championships in Oviedo in 1998, Sonnemans lost to the Romanian Radu Ivan in the semifinals , and he won the battle for bronze against Ghislain Lemaire. In 1999 Sonnemans won the World Cup in Paris. At the World Military Games in Zagreb, Sonnemans competed in the heavyweight division and won silver behind the Chinese Pan Song . In 2000 Sonnemans took part in the Olympic Games in Sydney. After an opening defeat in 2:38 minutes against the Canadian Nicolas Gill , he defeated the Portuguese Soares and then lost to the Georgian Iweri Jikurauli . So Sonnemans finished ninth in the end. At the end of 2000, Sonnemans won a bronze medal at the military world championships.

Sonnemans won a total of eight Dutch championship titles: from 1993 to 1997 in the light heavyweight up to 95 kilograms, in 1998 in the light heavyweight up to 100 kilograms and in 1994 and 1995 in the all category. After his career, Sonnemans was sports director at the Dutch Judo Association.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 757f
  3. ↑ Military World Games 1999 in judoinside.com
  4. ↑ Results according to SportsReference
personal data
SURNAME Sonnemans, Ben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sonnemans, Bernardus Jacobus Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch judoka
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Haarlem