Annett Böhm (born 8 January 1980
in
Meerane
Meerane () is a town in the Zwickau district of Saxony, Germany. It lies midway between the towns of Altenburg and Zwickau, west of Chemnitz.
As of 31 December 2015, there were 14,851 inhabitants. The population has declined from a peak of over 2 ...
,
Saxony
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,
East Germany
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) is a German
Judoka
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.
Career
She began practicing
Judo
is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, 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 Encyc ...
in PSC Glauchau/Meerane at the age of 7 years. Her first coaches were Erhard and Michael Hinke. In 1995 she went to a sport boarding school in
Leipzig
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where she trained as part of the high performance Judo group. Böhm finished her Master of Sport science at the
University of Leipzig
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in 2005. In 2007, she started to study journalism.
Her coach since 1999 has been Norbert Littkopf. He was for several years also the coach of the German women's national team.
Her first major success was in 1997, when she won the gold medal at the
European Junior Championships in
Ljubljana
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, Slovenia. Two years later she won the silver medal. She gained 5th place at the
2000 European Championships in
Wrocław
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, Poland and won her first gold medal at the German National Championships.
In her first
World Championships
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in
2003
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in
Osaka
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, Japan, she surprisingly won the bronze medal. This qualified her for the
2004 Summer Olympics
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The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...
in
Athens
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, Greece. In Athens she won a bronze medal in the
middleweight (70 kg) division. She beat opponents
Quin Dongya (China) and
Catherine Roberge (Canada). In the semi-final she lost her only fight against
Edith Bosch (Netherlands). After this fight, Böhm beat
Catherine Jacques
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(Belgium) in only 38 seconds with an
ippon
is the highest score a fighter can achieve in a Japanese martial arts ''ippon-wazari'' contest, usually kendo, judo, karate or jujitsu.
In judo
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For throws, the ...
-score (
Te-Guruma) for a bronze medal.
In 2005, Böhm sustained several injuries. Six weeks before the
2005 World Championships in
Cairo
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, Egypt, she broke her left foot. Nevertheless, she battled through her injuries to narrowly miss bronze. In the following year she had several surgical procedures, which prevented her from going to the
2006 European Championships.
In 2007, she qualified for the
World Championships
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in
Rio de Janeiro
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, Brazil. She only won one fight, placing her 9th place. This meant that she did not achieve direct qualification for the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, China. However, in 2008 she returned to her old form. She won bronze medals at the Super World Cup in
Paris
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, France, and
Sofia
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, Bulgaria. This placed her among the top 5 on the European ranking list, which qualified her for the Olympics. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she lost the bronze medal match of the
middleweight (70 kg) division to American
Ronda Rousey
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She was the first Am ...
.
Photos
Image:Annet Böhm WM-Rio I.jpg, Böhm vs. Gévrise Emane (FRA) - Judo World Championships in Brazil 2007
Image:AnnnetBoehm WM-Rio II.JPG, Böhm vs. Gévrise Emane (FRA) - Judo World Championships in Brazil 2007
Image:AnnnetBoehm WM-Rio IV.JPG, Böhm - Judo World Championships in Brazil 2007
Image:AnnnetBoehm WM-Rio V.JPG, Böhm vs. Zhanar Zhanzunova (KAZ) - Judo WM in Brasilien 2007
Image:Annet Böhm WM-Rio VI.jpg, Böhm - Judo World Championships in Brazil 2007
Image:AnnettBoehm-privat I.jpg,
Image:AnnettBoehm-privat II.jpg,
Image:AnnettBoehm-privat III.jpg,
References
External links
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Olympia Sport Leipzig GmbH (OSL)- Sport Marketing AgencyEuropean Judo Union – Olympic Classification Ranking ListDeutscher Judobund (DJB)- ResultsAnnett Böhm Achievements 1995-2008 (PDF 65 Kb)
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1980 births
Living people
People from Meerane
German female judoka
Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic judoka for Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
Olympic medalists in judo
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Martial artists from Saxony
21st-century German sportswomen