Kim Ryon-mi
North Korean Olympic judoka (born 1983)
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Kim Ryon-mi (Korean: 김련미; born February 8, 1983) is a North Korean judoka, who competed in the women's middleweight category.[1] She captured two silver medals in the 70-kg division at the Asian Judo Championships (2004 and 2005), and finished seventh at the 2004 Summer Olympics, representing her nation North Korea.[2]
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| Full name | Kim Ryon-mi | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  North Korea | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 February 1983 | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Judo | |||||||||||||||||
Event | 70 kg | |||||||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 김련미 | |||||||||||||||||
| RR | Gim Ryeonmi | |||||||||||||||||
| MR | Kim Ryŏnmi | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kim qualified for the North Korean squad in the women's middleweight class (70 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by placing second and receiving a berth from the Asian Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan.[2] She easily thwarted Angola's Antonia Moreira with an earth-shattering ippon in her opening match, before succumbed to a similar tactic and an sumi gaeshi (corner reversal) hold from Australia's Catherine Arlove. In the repechage round, Kim chased Czech judoka and two-time Olympian Andrea Pažoutová with a sensational ōuchi gari (big inner reap) throw to score a waza-ari (half point) within a five-minute limit, but her rigid form was not enough to combat Belgium's Catherine Jacques in their subsequent match, relegating Kim into the seventh position.[3][4]
