Pak Chol-min (Judoka)

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	박철민
Hancha	朴哲民
Revised Romanization	Bak Cheolmin
McCune- Reischauer	Pak Chŏlmin
See also : Korean name

Pak Chol-min (born September 1, 1982 ) is a former North Korean judoka . He won a bronze medal in the light weight division at the 2008 Olympics.

The 1.69 m tall Pak Chol-min lost at the Asian Games 2006 in the quarter-finals against the Chinese Bu Hechaolu , after a win and a defeat in the round of hope, he finished seventh. The following year he was defeated at the World Championships in Rio de Janeiro in his first fight to the Armenian Armen Nazarjan , in the round of hope he won two fights, but did not come under the top eight. In 2008 he finished fifth at the Asian Championships after losing to the Mongols Chaschbaataryn Tsagaanbaatar in the semi-finals and against the Uzbek Mirali Sharipov in the battle for bronze.

At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, he defeated the Italian Giovanni Casale in the round of 16 and the Portuguese Pedro Dias in the quarter-finals, each over the full five-minute battle. In the semifinals he was defeated by the French Benjamin Darbelet by Ippon. Pak won the battle for bronze against Mirali Sharipov in a full-time fight. In 2009, the North Korean finished fifth at the Asian Championships, at the 2009 World Championships he was eliminated by a first round defeat against the Georgian Sasa Kedelashvili .

Web links

• Pak Chol-min in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• 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. Pak is the family name here, Chol-min is the first name.