Hyun Sook-hee

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 현숙희
Hanja 玄 淑姬
Revised
Romanization 		Hyeon Sukhui
McCune-
Reischauer 		Hyŏn Sukhŭi

Hyun Sook-hee (born March 3, 1971 ) is a former South Korean judoka . She won an Olympic silver medal in the half light weight.

Career

Hyun Sook-hee took seventh place at the 1993 World Championships . In the same year she won her first title at the Asian Championships. At the Asian Games in 1994 she won the final against Atsuko Takeda from Japan . Two months later, she won a bronze medal at the World Student Championships. As in 1993, Hyun also finished seventh at the 1995 World Championships .

In the summer of 1996 she defeated the Argentine Carolina Mariani through Ippon in the quarter-finals of the Olympic Games in Atlanta . In the semifinals she won over the Cuban Legna Verdecia by punishing the Cuban (chui). In the final, Marie-Claire Restoux from France won a small score (yuko). At the 1997 World Championships in Paris, Hyun lost in her first fight to the North Korean Kye Sun-hui . With four wins in the Hope Round, Hyun secured a bronze medal.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The year of birth 1971 comes from the Olympic database SportsReference, the judoinside.com site mentions 1973 as the year of birth.
  2. ↑ Asian Games 1994 at judoinside.com
  3. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 759f
  4. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Hyun is the family name here, Sook-hee is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Hyun Sook-hee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 현숙희 (Hangeul)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean judoka
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1971