Kim Polling

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Kim Polling (2011)

Kim Polling (born February 8, 1991 in Zevenhuizen , today Zuidplas ) is a Dutch judoka . Until 2018 she was four times European middleweight champion, in the weight class up to 70 kilograms.

Athletic career

The 1.75 m tall Kim Polling was second at the U17 European Championships in 2007. In 2009 she won silver at the U20 European Championships. In 2010 she was Junior European Champion and Junior World Champion. In the same year she won the Dutch championship for adults for the first time, and further championship titles followed in 2011 and 2017. Also in 2010 she won her first World Cup tournaments in Tallinn and Birmingham. In 2011 she won the Universiade in Shenzhen.

At the 2013 European Championships in Budapest, she defeated Austrian Bernadette Graf in the semifinals and her compatriot Linda Bolder in the final . Four months later she was defeated by South Korean Kim Seong-yeon in the quarterfinals of the World Championships in Rio de Janeiro , but Polling secured a bronze medal with two wins in the hope round . At the 2014 European Championships in Montpellier, she defended her European title with a final victory over German Laura Vargas Koch . A year later she won again against Laura Vargas Koch in the final of the European Championships held at the European Games in Baku . Polling finished seventh at the World Championships in Astana. In 2016 at the European Championships in Kazan, she finished fifth. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Polling lost to the Japanese Haruka Tachimoto in her opening match . It wasn't until the European Championships in 2018 that Kim Polling was able to win an international title again. After beating Gemma Howell in the semifinals , she defeated the second Brit Sally Conway in the final .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
personal data
SURNAME Polling, Kim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch judoka
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Zevenhuizen , today Zuidplas