Sanna Askelöf

Sanna Askelöf
Personal information
Full name	Sanna Maria Karolin Askelöf
Born	5 February 1983 (age 41); Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation	Judoka
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Sport
Country	Sweden
Sport	Judo
Weight class	–52 kg
Club	IK Södra
Achievements and titles
Olympic Games	9th (2004)
World Champ.	R32 (2003, 2009)
European Champ.	R16 (2004, 2005, 2009)
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing Sweden
European Junior Championships
Profile at external databases
IJF	6008
JudoInside.com	15541
	Updated on 14 February 2022

Sanna Maria Karolin Askelöf (born 5 February 1983 in Stockholm) is a Swedish judoka who competed in the women's half-lightweight category.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3]

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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.^[2]^[4] 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.^[5] 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).^[6]^[7]

[1]
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sanna Askelöf". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
[2]
"Judoutövande växer - men saknar spets" [Judo rises, but lacks training and exercise] (in Swedish). Svenska Dagbladet. 22 July 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
[3]
"SM-silver i Judo till Emmylie Nordh" [Silver medal for Emmylie Nordh at the Swedish Judo Champs] (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 26 March 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
[4]
"Här börjar svenska klassresan mot Aten" [Swedes begin their trip to Athens] (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. 8 August 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
[5]
"Cuba conquistó dos medallas de bronce en judo; Japón obtuvo otra de oro" [Cuba has won two bronze medals in judo; Japan adds another gold] (in Spanish). La Jornada. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
[6]
"Judo: Women's Half-Lightweight (52kg/115 lbs) Repechage Round 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
[7]
"Ilse Heylen offre une seconde médaille à la Belgique" [Ilse Heylen notches a second medal for Belgium] (in French). La Libre Belgique. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2014.