Sim Kwon-Ho
Sim Gwon Ho ( born October 12, 1972 in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea ) is a former South Korean wrestler. He was 1996 and 2000 Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in the light flyweight and flyweight.
Career
Sim Gwon Ho began in 1984 as a teenager with the rings. He concentrated on the Greco-Roman wrestling and was mainly trained by Bang Dae -du. He was employed by the Korean Housing Company and also belonged to the Sports Club this company in Seoul. The 1.60 meter tall athlete always started in the lightest weight category of the men's wrestling. That was until 1996, the light flyweight, which had its weight limit at 48 kg, and for the abolition of this weight class since 1997 at flyweight, with a weight limit of 54 kg body weight.
As a junior, he was employed in any international championship. Therefore, until the age of 20 he first participated in such a championship, the Asian Championships in Tehran in 1992. He came here in the light flyweight behind Masanori Ohashi, Japan and Pappu Jadav, India, on the 3rd place. He was at the Asian Cup in Hiroshima behind Puppa Jadav runner-up in 1993. In the same year he first participated in a Wrestling World Championships. In Stockholm he won it behind Wilber Sanchez Amita, Cuba and Zafar Guliyev from Russia a bronze medal. Then in November 1993, he came with the seniors on his first major tournament victory. He won at the World Chup in Heinola / Finland before Jozsef Hamzok, Hungary and Sergei Suvorov, Russia.
1994 won Sim Gwon -ho at the Asian Games in Hiroshima before Simchah Alireza, Iran and Ruslan Gebekow, Kyrgyzstan. At the World Cup this year, but was not used.
In 1995 he was in Manila for the first time Asian champions before Dimitri Korshunov, Uzbekistan and Fanis Dauletow, Kazakhstan, and in October 1995 he won at the World Championships in Prague for the first time the world title against Hiroshi Kado, Japan, Zafar Guliyev and Oleg Kucherenko, Germany. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, he continued his winning streak. He was there with wins over Zafar Guliyev, Ioannis Agatzanian, Greece, Gela Papaschwili, Georgia and Alexander Pavlov, Belarus in superior style Olympic champion.
In 1997 he renounced in favor of his compatriot Ha Tae- yeon to take part in the World Cup. He started in November 1997 in a World Cup tournament in Tehran flyweight and came up behind the Russian Boris Ambarzumow and before the Iranians Ali Ashkani Agboalag to 2nd place. In 1998 he was at the World Championships in Gävle back on the mat and picked up there with wins over Moshe Grimberg, Israel, Dilshod Aripow, Uzbekistan, Boris Petrovich Radke, Belarus, Oleg Kucherenko and Marian Sandu, Romania his second world title. In December 1998, he won even at the Asian Games in Bangkok Kang Yong- Gyun, North Korea, Wang Hui, China and Dilshod Aripow.
In May 1999, he then won again at the Asian Championships in Tashkent shame Eddin Chudaiberdijew, Uzbekistan and Rachimdschan Assembekow, Kazakhstan. But he renounced again to participate in the World Cup.
At the end of his great career Sim Gwon Ho was a second -time Olympic champion in 2000 in Sydney. On the way to this success, he defeated Dariusz Jabłoński, Poland, Rachimdschan Assembekow, Alfred Ter - Mkrtchyan, Germany, Kang Yong- Gyun and Lazaro Rivas Scull from Cuba.
International success
Notes
- All competitions in Greco-Roman wrestling
- OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup
- Light flyweight weight class up to 1996 kg to 48 kg, abolished thereafter, flyweight weight class from 1997 to 2001 bis 54 kg body weight
Swell
- Journal The Ringer
- Website " Foeldeak Wrestling Database "