- Choi Min-Ho
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Medal record Competitor for 
South KoreaMen's Judo Olympic Games Bronze 2004 Athens -60 kg Gold 2008 Beijing -60 kg World Championships Gold 2003 Osaka -60 kg Bronze 2007 Rio de Janeiro -60 kg Asian Games Bronze 2002 Busan -60 kg Asian Championships Silver 2001 Ulaanbaatar -60 kg Bronze 2007 Kuwait City -60 kg Korean name Hangul 최민호 Hanja 崔敏浩 Revised Romanization Choe Min-ho McCune–Reischauer Ch'oe Min-ho Choi Min-Ho (born August 18, 1980 in Gimcheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea) is a male South Korean judoka who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics in the 60kg extra-lightweight category.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he ended all 5 of his matches by Ippon, and defeated European champion Ludwig Paischer in the final for the gold medal.
Choi was voted as the 2008 Best Judoka of the Year by L´Esprit du Judo magazine of France.[1]
References
- ^ http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?linkid=406&articleid=2009020910351777870&newssetid=28
External links
- Profile
- Videos of Choi Min-Ho (judovision.org)
Categories:- 1980 births
- Living people
- South Korean judoka
- South Korean Roman Catholics
- Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic judoka of South Korea
- Olympic gold medalists for South Korea
- Olympic bronze medalists for South Korea
- Olympic medalists in judo
- Asian Games medalists in judo
- Asian judo biography stubs
- South Korean sportspeople stubs
- South Korean Olympic medalist stubs
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