Sanna Askelöf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Sanna Askelöf

Olympic judoka

Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1983

Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

Profession: judoka

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Sanna Askelöf

  • Sanna Maria Karolin Askelöf (born 5 February 1983 in Stockholm) is a Swedish judoka 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 Sweden in the 52-kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
  • Throughout most of her sporting career until 2009, Askelof trained as a full-fledged member of the judo squad for Södra Sports Club (Swedish: 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 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by placing third from the A-Tournament in Tallinn, Estonia.
  • She lost her opening match to Cuba's Amarilis Savón, who successfully scored an ippon and gripped her with a kuzure kami shiho gatame (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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