Sim Kwon-Ho
| Medal record | ||
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Representing  South Korea
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| Men’s Greco-Roman wrestling | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
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2000 Sydney | 54 kg |
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1996 Atlanta | 48 kg |
| World Championships | ||
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1998 Gävle | 54 kg |
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1995 Prague | 48 kg |
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1993 Stockholm | 48 kg |
| Asian Games | ||
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1998 Bangkok | 54 kg |
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1994 Hiroshima | 48 kg |
| Asian Championships | ||
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1999 Tashkent | 54 kg |
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1996 Xiaoshan | 48 kg |
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1995 Manila | 48 kg |
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1993 Hiroshima | 48 kg |
Sim Kwon-Ho (Hangul: 심권호, Hanja: 沈權虎; born October 10, 1972 in Seongnam, South Korea) is a retired South Korean Greco Roman wrestler. He won gold medals at the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games, and is the only South Korean wrestler to win two gold medals in the Olympics.
Sim was born on October 10, 1972 in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, and started wrestling at the age of 13. While attending Seoul Physical Education High School in 1990, Sim was first selected for the South Korean national wrestling team.
Sim first gained attention at the 1993 World Wrestling Championships where he won the bronze medal in the 48 kg category. Next year, Sim won the gold medal in the Men's Greco-Roman 48 kg at the Asian Games. Since the 1994 Asian Games, Sim swept gold medals in the Greco-Roman light flyweight(48 kg) and flyweight(54 kg) categories never losing a match at major international competitions such as Olympic Games, World Championships, Asian Games and Asian Championships until his retirement in 2000.
While trying to earn his spot to compete for the 1992 Summer Olympics, in Barcelona, Sim was ranked first in the Men's Greco-Roman 48 kg at the South Korean national trials, beating 1991 World Champion Goun Duk-Yong. Amid controversy, however, Goun was selected by Korea Wrestling Federation over Sim in the 48 kg category at the Barcelona Games, despite being ranked lower in the trials. At the Barcelona Games Goun was eventually eliminated in Round 1.
At the Atlanta Games in 1996, Sim won his first Olympic title by defeating Aleksandr Pavlov of Belarus in the final. He scored two points with a chest-high roll-through with 42 seconds left in regulation time and then added two more points with another roll in overtime to score a 4-0 victory.
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