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{{Short description|South Korean Greco-Roman wrestler}}
{{Family name hatnote|[[Sim (Korean name)|Sim]]||lang=Korean}}
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{{MedalSport | Men's [[Greco-Roman wrestling]]}}
{{MedalCountry | {{KOR}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Wrestling at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
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{{MedalGold| [[2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney]] | [[Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 54 kg|54 kg]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Atlanta]] | [[Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 48 kg|48 kg]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FILA Wrestling World Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1998 FILA Wrestling World Championships|1998 Gävle]]|54 kg}}
{{MedalGold|[[1995 FILA Wrestling World Championships|1995 Prague]]|48 kg}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1993 FILA Wrestling World Championships|1993 Stockholm]]|48 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Wrestling at the Asian Games|Asian Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1998 Asian Games|1998 Bangkok]]|54 kg}}
{{MedalGold|[[1994 Asian Games|1994 Hiroshima]]|48 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Asian Wrestling Championships|Asian Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1999 Asian Wrestling Championships|1999 Tashkent]]|54 kg}}
{{MedalGold|[[1996 Asian Wrestling Championships|1996 Xiaoshan]]|48 kg}}
{{MedalGold|[[1995 Asian Wrestling Championships|1995 Manila]]|48 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1993 Asian Wrestling Championships|1993 Hiroshima]]|48 kg}}
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'''Sim Kwon-Ho''' ({{Korean|hangul=심권호|hanja=沈權虎}}; born October 10, 1972, in [[Seongnam]], [[South Korea]]) is a retired [[South Korea]]n [[Greco-Roman wrestling|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.

==Career==
Sim was born on October 10, 1972, in Seongnam, [[Gyeonggi Province]], 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&nbsp;kg category. Next year, Sim won the gold medal in the Men's Greco-Roman 48&nbsp;kg at the [[1994 Asian Games|Asian Games]]. Since the 1994 Asian Games, Sim swept gold medals in the Greco-Roman light flyweight(48&nbsp;kg) and flyweight(54&nbsp;kg) categories never losing a match at major international competitions such as [[Olympic Games]], [[World Wrestling Championships|World Championships]], [[Asian Games]] and [[Asian Wrestling Championships|Asian Championships]] until his retirement in 2000.

=== 1992 Olympic trials ===
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&nbsp;kg at the South Korean national trials, beating [[1991 World Wrestling Championships|1991 World Champion]] [[Goun Duk-Yong]]. Amid controversy, however, Goun was selected by Korea Wrestling Federation over Sim in the 48&nbsp;kg category at the Barcelona Games, despite being ranked lower in the trials. At the Barcelona Games Goun was eventually eliminated in Round 1.

===1996 Olympics===
At the [[1996 Summer Olympics|Atlanta Games]] in 1996, Sim won his first Olympic title by defeating [[Aleksandr Pavlov (wrestler)|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.

In November 1996 Sim became the last world light flyweight (48&nbsp;kg) champion at the 1996 [[FILA Wrestling World Cup|World Cup]] where the [[International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles|FILA]]'s final international 48&nbsp;kg class competitions were held, dominating all the opponents by [[technical fall]] including two-time World Champion [[Wilber Sánchez (wrestler)|Wilber Sánchez]] of [[Cuba]].

===2000 Olympics===
Sim moved up in weight from 48&nbsp;kg to 54&nbsp;kg in 1997 when the new weight classes were established by FILA. In the semifinals of the [[2000 Summer Olympics|Sydney Games]] in 2000, he defeated [[Kang Yong-Gyun]] of [[North Korea]] 10–0. At the Opening Ceremony, the North and South Koreans had marched together. In this spirit, before the medal matches, Sim gave advice to Kang about the man he would be facing in the bronze-medal match-[[Andriy Kalashnikov]] of [[Ukraine]], while Kang gave Sim a scouting report on his opponent in the gold-medal match-[[Lázaro Rivas]] of Cuba. Both Koreans won, with Sim scoring early and often against Rivas and prevailing 8–0.

==Post career==
Sim is currently a wrestling commentator for [[Seoul Broadcasting System|SBS Sports]] and serving as an assistant coach for the [[Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation|KOMSCO]] wrestling team.

==Notable final matches==
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|  style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|'''Opponent'''
|  style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|'''Res.'''
|  style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|'''Class'''
|  style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|'''Score'''
|  style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|'''Date'''
|  style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|'''Competition'''
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|- align=center
|{{yes2}}Win||align=left|{{flagicon|CUB}} [[Lázaro Rivas]]
|rowspan=4|{{small|54kg}}|| {{small|8:0}} ||{{small|2000-06-09}}
|align=left|{{flagicon|AUS}} {{small|[[2000 Summer Olympics]]}}
|align=left|{{small|Won second Olympic gold medal.}}
|- align=center
|{{yes2}}Win||align=left|{{flagicon|UZB}} [[Shamseddin Khudoyberdiev]]
||{{small|3:2}} ||{{small|1999-05-31}}
|align=left|{{flagicon|UZB}} {{small|[[1999 Asian Wrestling Championships|1999 Asian Championships]]}}
|align=left|{{small|Won third Asian Championship gold medal.}}
|- align=center
|{{yes2}}Win||align=left|{{flagicon|PRK}} [[Kang Yong-Gyun]]
||{{small|5:5}} ||{{small|1998-12-13}}
|align=left|{{flagicon|THA}} {{small|[[1998 Asian Games]]}}
|align=left|{{small|Won second Asian Games gold medal.}}
|- align=center
|{{yes2}}Win||align=left|{{flagicon|ROM}} [[Marian Sandu]]
||{{small|5:3}} ||{{small|1998-08-30}}
|align=left|{{flagicon|SWE}} {{small|[[1998 World Wrestling Championships|1998 World Championships]]}}
|align=left|{{small|Won second World Championship gold medal.}}
|- align=center
|{{yes2}}Win||align=left|{{flagicon|BLR}} [[Aleksandr Pavlov (wrestler)|Aleksandr Pavlov]]
|rowspan=5|{{small|48kg}}|| {{small|4:0}} ||{{small|1996-07-21}}
|align=left|{{flagicon|USA}} {{small|[[1996 Summer Olympics]]}}
|align=left|{{small|Won first Olympic gold medal.}}
|- align=center
|{{yes2}}Win||align=left|{{flagicon|PRK}} [[Kang Yong-Gyun]]
||{{small|11:0}} ||{{small|1996-04-06}}
|align=left|{{flagicon|CHN}} {{small|[[1996 Asian Wrestling Championships|1996 Asian Championships]]}}
|align=left|{{small|Won second Asian Championship gold medal.}}
|- align=center
|{{yes2}}Win||align=left|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Hiroshi Kado]]
||{{small|6:0}} ||{{small|1995-10-14}}
|align=left|{{flagicon|CZE}} {{small|[[1995 World Wrestling Championships|1995 World Championships]]}}
|align=left|{{small|Won first World Championship gold medal.}}
|- align=center
|{{yes2}}Win||align=left|{{flagicon|UZB}} [[Dmitri Korshunov]]
||{{small|12:0}} ||{{small|1995-06-28}}
|align=left|{{flagicon|PHI}} {{small|[[1995 Asian Wrestling Championships|1995 Asian Championships]]}}
|align=left|{{small|Won first Asian Championship gold medal.}}
|- align=center
|{{yes2}}Win||align=left|{{flagicon|IRI}} [[Reza Simkhah]]
||{{small|7:0}} ||{{small|1994-10-05}}
|align=left|{{flagicon|JPN}} {{small|[[1994 Asian Games]]}}
|align=left|{{small|Won first Asian Games gold medal.}}
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== External links ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhz1v4qDER4 Sim Kwon-Ho's highlights in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics] from [[Youtube.com]]

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