Kye Sun-hui

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Kye Sun-hui

Personal information
Nationality	North Korean
Born	(1979-08-02) 2 August 1979 (age 42)
Sport
Sport	Judo
Medal record Women's judo Representing  North Korea Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta -48 kg 2004 Athens -57 kg 2000 Sydney -52 kg World Championships 2001 Munich -52 kg 2003 Osaka -57 kg 2005 Cairo -57 kg 2007 Rio de Janeiro -57 kg 1997 Paris -52 kg 1999 Birmingham -52 kg Asian Games 1998 Hiroshima -52 kg 2002 Busan -52 kg Asian Championships 1997 Osaka -52 kg 1999 Osaka -52 kg |}

Kye Sun-hui (born August 2, 1979, in Pyongyang) is a North Korean judoka.

Kye won three Olympic medals in different weight classes, in 1996, 2000 and 2004. When she won the gold medal in Atlanta, 1996 she became the youngest gold medalist in judo. She had entered the Games thanks to the wild card system, and her Olympic gold has been described as one of the biggest surprises of the Atlanta Olympics.^[1]

Kye competed for a fourth time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing but did not fare too well.^[2]

She has been awarded the Kim Il-sung Prize and the titles of People's Athlete and Labor Hero.^[3][4]

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External links[]

• Kye Sun-hui at the International Judo Federation
• Kye Sun-hui at JudoInside.com
• Kye Sun-hui at Olympics.com
• Kye Sun-hui at Olympedia
• Kye Sun-hui at databaseOlympics.com (archived)

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