Kwak Dae-sung

Korean spelling
Hangeul	곽대성
Hanja	郭大成
Revised Romanization	Kwak Dae-seong
McCune- Reischauer	Kwak Tae-sŏng
See also : Korean name

Kwak Dae-sung (born February 13, 1973 ) is a former South Korean judoka . He was Olympic runner-up in 1996 and vice world champion in 1995 in the lightweight category.

Kwak Dae-sung won the 1994 student world championships in Münster. In the semifinals of the 1995 World Championships in Chiba , he won against Jimmy Pedro from the United States, and lost the final to Daisuke Hideshima from Japan . Two months later he lost to the Japanese Kenzo Nakamura in the final of the Asian Championships . At the Olympic Games in Atlanta Kwak and Nakamura met again in the final, Nakamura won by judge decision (yusei-gachi). At the Asian Championships in 1996 Kwak won the title by beating the Kazakhs Achat Aeschirow in the final . In 1997 Kwak won the Tournoi de Paris and the South Asian Games. In the final of the 1997 Asian Championships, he defeated the Mongols Chaliuny Boldbaatar .

Web links

• Kwak Dae-sung 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. 755

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kwak is the family name here, Dae-sung is the first name.