Full Name: | Hendrik Numan |
Birth Date: | 13 June 1955 |
Birth Place: | Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
Death Place: | Landsmeer, the Netherlands |
Height: | 1.87 m |
Country: | Netherlands |
Weight Class: | 95 kg |
Worlds Rank: | 3 |
Worlds Year: | 1979 |
Regionals Type: | EU |
Regionals Rank: | 5 |
Regionals Year: | 1982 |
Olympics Rank: | 3 |
Olympics Year: | 1980 |
Olympics Weight: | Men's 95 kg |
Updated: | 20 June 2023 |
Hendrik "Henk" Numan (13 June 1955 – 26 April 2018) was a judoka from the Netherlands, who won a bronze medal in half-heavyweight division (95 kg) at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. His only loss at that tournament was against the later champion Robert Van De Walle from Belgium. A year earlier, Numan won a bronze medal at the 1979 World Judo Championships. In 1992, he also competed in Japanese professional wrestling for Fighting Network RINGS as a part of Chris Dolman's team.
Numan died at the age of 62 on 26 April 2018. No cause of death was publicly released.[1] [2] However, in an interview with Dutch wrestling coach Bert Kops jr., published a few weeks later, it was revealed that Numan had committed suicide.[3]