Mark Huizinga

Medal record
Mark Huizinga
Men's judo
Competitor for the  Netherlands
Olympic Games
Gold	2000 Sydney	-90 kg
Bronze	1996 Atlanta	-86 kg
Bronze	2004 Athens	-90 kg
World Championships
Bronze	2005 Cairo	-90 kg
European Championships
Gold	1996 The Hague	-86 kg
Gold	1997 Oostende	-86 kg
Gold	1998 Oviedo	-90 kg
Gold	2001 Paris	-90 kg
Gold	2008 Lisbon	-90 kg
Silver	2000 Wroclaw	-90 kg
Silver	2004 Bucharest	-90 kg
Bronze	1994 Gdansk	-78 kg
Bronze	1999 Bratislava	-90 kg
Bronze	2002 Maribor	-90 kg
Bronze	2003 Düsseldorf	-90 kg
Bronze	2005 Rotterdam	-90 kg

Huizinga at the 2005 European Championships

Mark Huizinga (born September 10, 1973) is a Dutch judoka and Olympic champion.

Huizinga was born in Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland in Netherlands in 1973. He won the gold medal in the men's under 90 kg class at the 2000 Summer Olympics by defeating Brazil's Carlos Honorato by ippon. He took bronze at the 1996 and 2004 Summer Olympics. Other laurels include five European Championships and a bronze medal at the 2005 World Judo Championships. Huizinga retired after the 2008 Olympics.

Trivia

On January 20, 2010, Huizinga participated in De Nationale IQ test (The National IQ test) of Dutch broadcaster BNN, an informal quiz/comedy show. He was rated with an intelligence quotient of 142, an all time record on the show.^[1]

External links

• markhuizinga.nl/english Official website
• Factfile on JudoInside.com
• Videos of Mark Huizinga on Judovision.org

References

1. ^ "BNN's Nationale IQ test 2010, dutch celebrities (Dutch)". BNN. http://www.bnn.nl/page/iqtest/bners. Retrieved 2010-07-27. 

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Name	Huizinga, Mark
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Date of birth	September 10, 1973
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