Kim Byung-joo

Korean spelling
Hangeul	김병주
Hanja	金炳 周
Revised Romanization	Kim Byeong-ju
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Pyŏng-ju
See also : Korean name

Kim Byung-joo (born January 14, 1968 ) is a former South Korean judoka . He was world champion in 1989 and Olympic third in 1992 in the light middleweight division, the weight class up to 78 kilograms.

Athletic career

Kim Byung-joo defeated the British Dave Southby in the first round at the World Championships in Belgrade in 1989 , Torsten Bréchôt from the GDR in the round of 16 and Jason Morris from the United States in the quarter-finals . In the semifinals he won against Frank Wieneke from Germany and in the final he defeated the Japanese Tatsuto Mochida . This made him world champion, having not previously won an international tournament of any rank. In 1990 he won the World Cup tournament in Budapest. At the end of 1990 he won silver at the World Student Championships. In 1992 he won the Tournoi de Paris , in which he was third in 1990 and 1991.

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , he defeated the German 1991 World Champion Daniel Lascău with a Yuko rating in the first round . After two more victories, he was defeated in the quarterfinals by the Swede Lars Adolfsson, also with a Yuko rating. After two wins in the Hope Round , Kim won the battle for a bronze medal against the Belgian Johan Laats with Waza-ari. At the end of his international career in 1973, Kim won the Pacific Rim tournament in Auckland.

Web links

• Kim Byung-joo in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Tournament results at judoinside.com

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. 421f

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Byung-joo is the first name.