Kwak Dae-Sung is a retired
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 ...
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judo
is an unarmed gendai budō, 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 Nipponi ...
ka who is a two-time Asian champion (
1996
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and
1997
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).
He won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
, and also won silver at the
1995 World Judo Championships
The 1995 World Judo Championships were the 19th edition of the World Judo Championships, and were held in Chiba, Japan in 1995.
Medal overview Men
Women
Medal table
Results overview Men 60 kg
65 kg
71 kg
78 kg
86 kg
95 kg
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External links
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Living people
Judoka at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic judoka of South Korea
Olympic silver medalists for South Korea
Olympic medalists in judo
Year of birth missing (living people)
South Korean male judoka
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
20th-century South Korean people
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