Nina Solheim (born 4 August 1979) is a Norwegian taekwondo practitioner. She won a silver medal in the women's heavyweight (+67 kg) division at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, beaten by Mexican María del Rosario Espinoza in the final. She also qualified and competed in the women's middleweight (67 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She lost in the quarterfinals against Luo Wei of China after injuring her knee.

In addition to a bronze medal from the 2001 World Taekwondo Championships in Jeju, South Korea, Solheim won the gold medal in middleweight (72 kg) at the 2006 World Cup in Bangkok, Thailand.

Nina Solheim

Solheim is a well known athlete in Norway. She was born in South Korea, and at the age of seven months, she and her twin sister Mona were adopted by Norwegian parents, growing up in Namsos.

Nina Solheim

References

External links

Official website

1979 births

Living people

Norwegian female taekwondo practitioners

Norwegian people of Korean descent

Taekwondo practitioners at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Taekwondo practitioners at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Norway

Olympic silver medalists for Norway

People from Namsos

Olympic medalists in taekwondo

Norwegian twins

Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Norwegian adoptees

South Korean adoptees

South Korean emigrants to Norway

European Taekwondo Championships medalists

World Taekwondo Championships medalists

21st-century Norwegian women

Nina Solheim