Ha hyung-joo

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 하형주
Hanja 河 亨 柱
Revised
Romanization 		Ha Hyeongju
McCune-
Reischauer 		Ha Hyangchu

Ha Hyung-joo (born June 3, 1962 ) is a former South Korean judoka . He was Olympic champion in 1984 and vice world champion in 1985 in the light heavyweight division, the weight class up to 95 kilograms.

Athletic career

The 1.84 m tall Ha Hyung-joo won the open class at the Asian Championships in Jakarta in 1981, in the light heavyweight division he finished second behind the Japanese Tsukio Kawahara . At the 1981 World Championships in Maastricht he was defeated in the semifinals of the heavyweight Tengis Chubuluri from the Soviet Union, in the fight for a bronze medal he was defeated by Günther Neureuther from the Federal Republic of Germany. Three days later he dropped out of the open class in his second fight against Vladimír Kocman from Czechoslovakia.

In 1982, Ha Hyung-joo won a bronze medal at the World Student Championships. In 1984 he won the Tournoi de Paris . At the Olympic Games in Los Angeles , he defeated John Adams from the Dominican Republic in the first round after 1:09 minutes. In the last sixteen he won against the Canadian Joseph Meli by a Yuko rating and in the quarter-finals against the Japanese Masato Mihara by Ippon after 2:20 minutes. In the semi-final against Günther Neureuther, the Korean had to go the full distance again and won with a Yuko rating. The final against the Brazilian Douglas Vieira ended with a referee decision (yusei-gachi) for Ha Hyung-joo.

At the Universiade 1985 in Kobe, Ha Hyung-joo defeated the Brazilian Aurélio Miguel in the final . The World Championships took place in Seoul three weeks later . In the semifinals Ha defeated Günther Neureuther, in the final he was defeated by the Japanese Hitoshi Sugai . Ha and Sugai faced each other a year later in the final of the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul, this time the South Korean won. At the 1987 World Championships in Essen, Ha was defeated by Dutchman Theo Meijer in the quarter-finals , and with two wins in the hoping round over German Jens Geisler and Cuban Belarmino Salgado , the South Korean won a bronze medal. In 1988 the Olympic Games took place in Seoul , Ha Hyung-joo lost in the first round to Belgian Robert Van de Walle by Ippon after 1:59 minutes.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Asian Championships 1981 at judoinside.com. Judoinside.com gives exactly the same list of results for the 1984 Asian Championships , so the 1984 result was not used here.
  2. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  3. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 955, the nationality of Adams being corrected with the help of the SportsReference database ; Kluge says GBR.
  4. ↑ Universiade 1985 at judoinside.com
  5. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  6. ↑ 1986 Asian Games in judoinside.com
  7. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 108
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Ha is the family name here, Hyung-joo is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Ha hyung-joo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 하형주 (Hangeul)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean judoka
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1962