Kim Jae-Bum

Kim Jae-bum
Born	January 25, 1985 Gimcheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
Height	182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	81 kg (179 lb; 12 st 11 lb)
Division	Half-middleweight
Fighting out of	Seoul, South Korea
Trainer	Chung Hoon
Rank	5th degree black belt in Judo
University	Yongin University
Medal record Men's judo Representing  South Korea Olympic Games 2012 London -81 kg 2008 Beijing -81 kg World Championships 2010 Tokyo -81 kg 2011 Paris -81 kg 2009 Rotterdam -81 kg Asian Games 2010 Guangzhou -81 kg 2014 Incheon -81 kg Asian Championships 2005 Tashkent -73 kg 2008 Jeju -81 kg 2009 Taipei -81 kg 2011 Abu Dabi -81 kg 2012 Tashkent -81 kg
Korean name
Hangul	김재범
Hanja
Revised Romanization	Gim Jae-beom
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Chae-bŏm

Kim Jae-bum (Korean pronunciation: [kim.dʑɛ̝.bʌm]; born January 25, 1985 in Gimcheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do) is a retired South Korean judoka.

Kim won a gold medal in the -73 kg class at the 2004 World Junior Judo Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

At the 2005 Asian Judo Championships in Tashkent, he won a gold medal in the -73 kg class.

Kim was considered one of the Big Three Judokas of the -73 kg class in South Korea, along with Lee Won-hee and Wang Ki-chun. But in 2007, he moved up in weight to avoid the fierce competition, and won a gold medal in the -81 kg category at the 2008 Asian Judo Championships in Jeju.

Kim competed in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China and won the silver medal in the -81 kg class. In the preliminary rounds, he defeated 2006 European champion Serguei Shundikov of Belarus by points and 2007 European champion Robert Krawczyk of Poland by ippon. Kim edged out 2008 European champion João Neto of Portugal by points in the quarterfinals. In the semifinal, Kim beat 2005 World Champion Guillaume Elmont of the Netherlands. He lost to 2005 European champion Ole Bischof of Germany in the final, though Kim had defeated all of the European champions from 2006 to 2008 in the previous rounds.

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