Nina Solheim

Nina Solheim

Personal information

Nationality:

Norway

Birthday:

4th August 1979

Place of birth:

Busan

Size:

170 cm

Medals

Olympic games
silver	Beijing 2008	over 67 kg
World championships
bronze	Jeju-si 2001	up to 67 kg
European championships
bronze	Bonn 2006	up to 67 kg
bronze	Rome 2008	up to 72 kg

Nina Solheim (born August 4, 1979 in Busan , South Korea ) is a former Norwegian Taekwondoin who was active in the middle and heavyweight division .

Born in South Korea, Solheim was adopted by her Norwegian parents at the age of seven months and grew up in Namsos , where she started learning taekwondo in the Namsos Taekwondoklubb when she was nine . At the age of 16 she was accepted into the Norwegian national team and has since trained at the performance center in Oslo . She played her first international title fights at the European Championships in Helsinki in 1996 , where she made it to the quarter-finals. In 1999 she took part in a world championship for the first time in Edmonton and reached the second round. Two years later Solheim won her first international medal at the 2001 World Championships in Jeju-si with bronze in the class up to 67 kilograms. She qualified for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , where she made it to the quarter-finals, but had to give up injured there and finished seventh. 2006 was a successful year for Solheim. In addition to winning the title at the student world championship in Valencia and a world cup victory in Bangkok , she won her first European championship bronze medal in Bonn . Also at the 2007 World Cup , Solheim was able to achieve a good result by making it to the quarter-finals. In 2008 she won her second bronze medal in the class up to 72 kilograms in Rome . She later took part in her second Olympic Games in Beijing in the heavyweight over 67 kilograms and achieved the greatest sporting success of her career. With two wins she made it to the semi-finals, where she narrowly defeated Natália Falavigna . In the final, she lost to María Espinoza and won the silver medal. After the games, she ended her active career.

Solheim's twin sister Mona is also a successful Taekwondoin.

Web links

Nina Solheim in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Nina Solheim on the pages of TaekwondoData .com

Individual evidence

^ My Norwegian pen pal Nina Solheim. Retrieved June 15, 2012 .

personal data
SURNAME	Solheim, Nina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian Taekwondoin
DATE OF BIRTH	4th August 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH	Busan

[1] My Norwegian pen pal Nina Solheim. Retrieved June 15, 2012 .