South Korean judoka Huh Mimi won the silver medal in the women’s judo event at the Paris Olympics on Monday.

Huh lost to Christa Deguchi of Canada in the 57-kilogram final at the Champ-de-Mars Arena in Paris after she was penalized for a third time.  

Huh’s silver marks the first Judo medal for South Korea in the Paris Olympics after four events held over the weekend. It also ended an eight-year Olympic medal drought for Korean female judoka. 

Huh was born in Japan to a Korean father and a Japanese mother. 

Also, as a descendant of a Korean independence fighter from the Japanese colonial period, Huh decided to compete for South Korea according to the wish of her late grandmother.