Ri Sang-sim

Ri Sang-sim
Personal information
Nationality  North Korea
Born (1979-10-10) 10 October 1979
Pyongyang, North Korea
Height 1.59 m (5 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Weight 52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport Judo
Event(s) 52 kg
Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl 리상심
Revised Romanization I Sangsim
McCune–Reischauer Ri Sangsim
This is a Korean name; the family name is Lee.

Ri Sang-sim (Korean: 리상심; born October 10, 1979 in Pyongyang) is a North Korean judoka who competed in the women's half-lightweight category.[1] She finished fifth in the 52-kg division at the 2003 World Judo Championships in Osaka, Japan, and also represented her nation North Korea at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[2]

Ri qualified for the North Korean squad in the women's half-lightweight class (52 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by placing third and granting a berth from the A-Tournament in Tallinn, Estonia. She lost her opening match to Japanese judoka and eventual silver medalist Yuki Yokosawa, who scored an ippon victory and pulverized her with a tate shiho gatame (vertical four-quarter hold) at two minutes and twenty-seven seconds.[3] In the repechage, Ri gave herself a chance for an Olympic bronze medal by taking a two-point advantage on yuko against Senegal's Hortense Diédhiou, but came to a halt with a loss on points and an uchi mata makikomi (inner thigh wraparound) hold to British judoka and 2002 Commonwealth Games champion Georgina Singleton.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Ri Sang-sim". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Cuba's Savon Wins her First Judo World Championships Gold". Xinhua. China Radio International. 13 September 2003. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Uchishiba claims Japan's third judo gold medal". Kyodo News. The Japan Times. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  4. ↑ "Judo: Women's Half-Lightweight (52kg/115 lbs) Repechage Round 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. ↑ "Singleton exits from Games". BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 21 November 2014.

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