Kim Polling | |
Birth Date: | 1991 2, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Zevenhuizen, Netherlands |
Country: | (until March 2024) (since April 2024)[1] |
Weight Class: | 70 kg |
Coach: | Marjolein van Unen Maarten Arens |
Olympics Rank: | R16 |
Olympics Year: | 2016 |
Olympics Weight: | Women's 70 kg |
Olympics Year2: | 2024 |
Olympics Weight2: | Women's 70 kg |
Worlds Rank: | 3 |
Worlds Year: | 2013 |
Worlds Weight: | Women's 70 kg |
Regionals Type: | EU |
Regionals Rank: | 1 |
Regionals Year: | 2013 |
Regionals Weight: | Women's 70 kg |
Regionals Year2: | 2014 |
Regionals Weight2: | Women's 70 kg |
Regionals Year3: | 2015 |
Regionals Weight3: | Women's 70 kg |
Regionals Year4: | 2018 |
Regionals Weight4: | Women's 70 kg |
Updated: | 31 July 2024 |
Kim Polling (born 8 February 1991) is a judoka competing in the women's 70 kg division.[2] Since April 2024, Polling represents Italy,[1] having previously represented the Netherlands.
Quadruple European Champion Kim Polling was World #1 for 3 years. She bagged the gold at the 2021 Antalya Grand Slam. She won various different Grand Slams. She took gold at the 2019 Abu Dhabi Grand Slam and the 2017 The Hague Grand Prix. Polling was World and European Junior Champion in 2010. Polling took bronze at the 2013 World Championships. Polling won four Judo World Masters in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2019. She took gold at the 2016 Tbilisi Grand Prix and at the 2018 Tunis Grand Prix.
In 2021, Polling won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2021 Judo World Masters held in Doha, Qatar.[3] [4]