Uta Kühnen

Uta Kühnen (born August 7, 1975 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German judoka .

She started judo in the fall of 1980 at the Jola Judo School in Baden-Baden , because her two older sisters were already judoka and she emulated her sisters. Your first trainer was Christa Hoffmann.

In February 1994 she moved to Berlin , where Uta Kühnen attended the sports-oriented Werner Seelenbinder School and completed her training at the federal base in Berlin, first under Uwe Müller, then with Detlef Ultsch and Jochen Bech .

In 1998 Uta Kühnen moved to SC Berlin .

Uta Kühnen participated in the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 and in Athens in 2004 .

Sporting successes

(DM = German Championship)

• 1993 1st DM U19
• 1995 3rd DM, 3rd IT Rome
• 1996 2nd DM, 1st IT Warsaw, 3rd IT Birmingham
• 1997 1st DM, 3rd EM
• 1998 1st DM, 1st IT Rome, 3rd IT 's-Hertogenbosch, 3rd EM, 1st IDEM, 2nd MEM, 3rd WM students
• 1999 1st IT Prague, 3rd IT Rome, 3rd IT Fukuoka, 2nd IDM, 3rd DM
• 2000 1st IT Moscow, 1st IT Munich, 2nd IT Rome, 3rd EM
• 2001 1st IDM, 5th World Championship, 3rd Grand Prix Seville
• 2003 1st IT Prague, 3rd IT Sofia, 3rd IDM, 7th World Cup
• 2004 2nd IT Sofia, 2nd IT Tallinn, 2nd IT Warsaw, 1st IT Rome, 2nd IDEM
• 2005 5th EJU Super World Cup Paris, 3rd Otto World Cup Hamburg, 7. EJU World Cup Rotterdam, 2nd EJU World Cup Madrid

Web links

• Homepage of Uta Kühnen
• Uta Kühnen at JudoInside.com