Sanna Maria Karolin Askelöf (born 5 February 1983 in

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) is a Swedish

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who competed in the women's half-lightweight category. Being raised by a Swedish father and a Norwegian mother and holding a dual citizenship to compete internationally, Askelof held five national senior titles in her own division, picked up a total of twenty-eight medals in her career, and represented her paternal nation

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in the 52-kg class at the

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. Throughout most of her sporting career until 2009, Askelof trained as a full-fledged member of the judo squad for Södra Sports Club ( sv, Idrotts Klubb Södra, IK Södra) in Farsta. Askelof qualified as a lone judoka for the Swedish squad in the women's half-lightweight class (52 kg) at the

in Athens, by placing third from the A-Tournament in Tallinn, Estonia. She lost her opening match to Cuba's

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, who successfully scored an ippon and gripped her with a

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(broken upper four-quarter hold down) at one minute and twenty-seven seconds. In the repechage, Askelof mounted her strength on the tatami to outscore and pin South Korea's Lee Eun-hee thirty-seven seconds into the match, but slipped her medal chance away in a defeat to Belgian judoka and eventual bronze medalist Ilse Heylen by a waza-ari awasete ippon point and a kesa-gatame (scarf hold).

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* 1983 births Living people Swedish female judoka Olympic judoka for Sweden Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swedish people of Norwegian descent Sportspeople from Stockholm 20th-century Swedish women 21st-century Swedish women {{Sweden-judo-bio-stub