Kim Min-Chul ( ko, 김 민철; born April 4, 1983) is an amateur South Korean

Greco-Roman wrestler Greco-Roman (American English), Graeco-Roman (British English), classic wrestling ( Euro English) or French wrestling (in Russia until 1948) is a style of wrestling that is practiced worldwide. Greco-Roman wrestling was included in the first mo ...

, who played for the men's welterweight category. He defeated Uzbekistan's Ravshan Ruzikulov for a gold medal in the 66 kg division at the

2006 Asian Games 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

in Doha, Qatar. He also captured a silver medal at the

2005 World Wrestling Championships The 2005 World Wrestling Championships were held at the László Papp Budapest Sports Arena in Budapest, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by ...

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, losing out to Bulgaria's

Nikolay Gergov Nikolay Borislavov Gergov ( bg, Николай Бориславов Гергов; born March 17, 1978, in Oryahovo, Vratsa) is an amateur Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's welterweight category. He defeated South Korea's Ki ...

in 66 kg tournament. Kim is a member of the wrestling team for Sung Shin Company Sportsclub, and is coached and trained by Kim Sung-Moon. Kim represented South Korea at the

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in Beijing, where he competed for the men's 66 kg class. He lost the qualifying round match by a superiority decision to Iran's Ali Mohammadi, with a two-set technical score (1–1, 1–1), and a classification point score of 1–3.

References

External links

Profile – International Wrestling Database
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Min-Chul South Korean male sport wrestlers 1983 births Living people Olympic wrestlers for South Korea Wrestlers at the 2006 Asian Games Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in wrestling World Wrestling Championships medalists Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games 21st-century South Korean people