An Jeong-hwan (born 28 January 1984 in

Daegu Daegu (, , literally 'large hill', 대구광역시), formerly spelled Taegu and officially known as the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; it is ...

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

) is a South Korean

judoka is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo"). ...

. An is a nephew of Olympic gold medalist

Ahn Byeong-keun Ahn Byeong-keun (born in Daegu, February 23, 1962) is a retired judoka from South Korea, who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics. There he claimed the gold medal in the men's lightweight division (– 71 kg) by d ...

. At the age of 15, An moved to Japan and continued his judo career in

Fukuoka is the sixth-largest city in Japan, the second-largest port city after Yokohama, and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since ancie ...

. Upon graduation from

Yamanashi Gakuin University Yamanashi Gakuin University (Japanese: 山梨学院大学, ''Yamanashi gakuin daigaku'') (YGU) is a university in Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Yamanashi Gakuin was founded in 1946. Today, it is a comprehensive educational institution that ...

in 2006, he came back to Korea and joined the Pohang City Hall judo club. On 26 August 2009, An won a bronze medal in the 66 kg division at the

2009 World Judo Championships The 2009 World Judo Championships was held in the Ahoy indoor sporting arena in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on 26 to 30 August. Women's heavyweight champion Tong Wen was stripped of her gold medal because of a doping offence, but was later reins ...

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* * * 1984 births Living people Sportspeople from Daegu South Korean male judoka 20th-century South Korean people 21st-century South Korean people {{SouthKorea-judo-bio-stub