Kim Polling (born 8 February 1991) is a Dutch

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competing in the women's 70 kg division. Quadruple European Champion Kim Polling was World #1 for 3 years. She bagged the Grand Slam gold in

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in 2021. She won various different Grand Slams. She took gold at the

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in Abu Dhabi 2019 and the Grand Prix in The Hague in 2017. Polling was World and European Junior Champion in 2010. Polling took bronze at the World Championships in 2013. Polling won four

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in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019. She took gold at the 2016 Grand Prix Tbilisi and Grand Prix in Tunis in 2018. She took bronze at the

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, Qatar in 2021. In 2021, she won one of the bronze medals in her event at the

held in Doha, Qatar.

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* * * 1991 births Living people Dutch female judoka European Games gold medalists for the Netherlands European Games medalists in judo Judoka at the 2015 European Games People from Leek, Netherlands Judoka at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka of the Netherlands Universiade medalists in judo Universiade gold medalists for the Netherlands Judoka at the 2019 European Games Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade 21st-century Dutch women Sportspeople from Groningen (province) {{Netherlands-judo-bio-stub