Kim Jong-shin
Appearance
Medal record | ||
---|---|---|
Representing South Korea | ||
Men's freestyle wrestling | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1992 Barcelona | Light Flyweight | |
World Championships | ||
1989 Martigny | 48 kg | |
1991 Varna | 48 kg | |
Asian Games | ||
1990 Beijing | 48 kg |
Kim Jong-Shin (Hangul: 김종신, Hanja: 金鍾信; born May 17, 1970 in Hampyeong, Jeollanam-do) is a retired South Korean freestyle wrestler.
Kim first garnered attention in the 1988 World Junior Wrestling Championships, held in Wolfurt, Austria where he won the gold medal in the freestyle 50 kg class. Next year, he captured the gold medal at the 1989 World Wrestling Championships, held in Martigny, Switzerland, defeating future Olympic champion Li Hak-Son of North Korea 4-2 in the final match.
Kim currently runs his own sambo gym in Seoul.
External links
- Kim Jong-Shin's profile from sports-references
Categories:
- 1970 births
- Living people
- South Korean wrestlers
- South Korean sport wrestlers
- Olympic wrestlers of South Korea
- Wrestlers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Male sport wrestlers
- Olympic silver medalists for South Korea
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- Asian Games medalists in wrestling
- Wrestlers at the 1990 Asian Games
- Wrestlers at the 1994 Asian Games
- South Korean sport wrestler stubs
- World Wrestling Championships medalists