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Judo At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 70 Kg
The Women's 70 kg (also known as ''middleweight'') tournament in the judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held on August 13 at the Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium. A total of 22 women competed in this event, limited to jūdōka with a bodyweight of less than 70 kilograms. Preliminary rounds started at 12:00 Noon CST. Repechage finals, semifinals, bouts for bronze medals, and the final were held at 18:00 pm CST. This event was the third-heaviest of the women's judo weight classes, limiting competitors to a maximum of 70 kilograms of body mass. Like all other judo events, bouts lasted five minutes. If the bout was still tied at the end, it was extended for another five-minute, sudden-death period; if neither judoka scored during that period, the match is decided by the judges. The tournament bracket consisted of a single-elimination contest culminating in a gold medal match. There was also a repechage to determine the winners of the two bronze medals. Each jud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing Science And Technology University Gymnasium
The Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium () is an indoor arena located on the campus of the University of Science and Technology Beijing. The venue covers an area of 2.38 hectares and the total floor space of construction reaches 24,662 square metres. The seating capacity is 8,024 seats, including 3,956 temporary ones. It consists of a main gym and a comprehensive facility. Construction started in October 2005 and was completed in August 2007. During the 2008 Summer Olympics, it hosted the judo and taekwondo matches. During the 2008 Summer Paralympics, it hosted the preliminary rounds of wheelchair basketball and the wheelchair rugby Wheelchair rugby (originally murderball, and known as quad rugby in the United States) is a team sport for athletes with a disability. It is practised in over twenty-five countries around the world and is a summer Paralympic sport. The US na ... competition. After the Olympic Games, the gymnasium turned into a complex to host ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annett Böhm
Annett Böhm (born 8 August 1980 in Meerane, Saxony, East Germany) is a German Judoka. Career She began practicing Judo in PSC Glauchau/Meerane at the age of 7 years. Her first coaches were Erhard and Michael Hinke. In 1995 she went to a sport boarding school in Leipzig where she trained as part of the high performance Judo group. Böhm finished her Master of Sport science at the University of Leipzig in 2005. In 2007, she started to study journalism. Her coach since 1999 has been Norbert Littkopf. He was for several years also the coach of the German women's national team. Her first major success was in 1997, when she won the gold medal at the European Junior Championships in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Two years later she won the silver medal. She gained 5th place at the 2000 European Judo Championships in Wrocław, Poland and won her first gold medal at the German National Championships. In her first World Judo Championships—2003 in Osaka, Japan—she surprisingly won the bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Ka-Yeon
Park Ka-Yeon (also ''Pak Ka-Yeon'', ko, 박 가연; born 28 January 1986) is a South Korean judoka, who played for the middleweight category. She won two silver medals for her division at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, and at the 2008 Asian Judo Championships in Jeju City. Park represented South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's 70 kg class. She lost the first preliminary round match, by an ippon and a kami-shiho-gatame (circling bridge or rollover), to Japan's Masae Ueno is a Japanese judoka who competed in the Athens 2004 Olympics and the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Ueno was born in Asahikawa Hokkaidō. In 2004, she earned Japan's fifth Olympic Gold Medal in ten events, taking the 70 kg women's judo event. S .... Because her opponent advanced further into the final match, Park offered another shot for the bronze medal by entering the repechage rounds. She was defeated in her first match by China's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nataliya Smal
Nataliya Nikolayevna Smal ( ukr, Наталія Николаевна Смаль; born 10 March 1983 in Koriukivka Raion, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian judoka and sambist. She competed in the 70 kg event at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she lost in the third round to Annett Böhm, and the 2012 Summer Olympics where she lost in the first round to Cecilia Blanco Cecilia Blanco (born 23 February 1979 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish judoka. She competed in two Summer Olympics: in 2004 in Athens in the 70 kg event where she lost the repechage semifinals to Qin Dongya and in 2012 in London in the 70 kg ev .... References External links * * * 1983 births Living people Ukrainian female judoka Ukrainian sambo practitioners Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka for Ukraine Sambo practitioners at the 2019 European Games European Games medalists in sambo European Games bronze medalists for Ukraine Sportspeople from Chernih ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annet Böhm , France
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Gisèle Mendy
Gisèle Mendy (born 19 December 1979) is a Senegalese judoka, who played for the middleweight category. She won three medals for her division at the African Judo Championships (2005, 2006, and 2008). She also captured a silver medal in the same division at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria, losing out to Algeria's Rachida Ouerdane. Mendy represented Senegal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's 70 kg class. She lost the first preliminary round match, by an ippon (full point) and a te gatame (hand armlock), to German judoka and Olympic bronze medalist Annett Böhm. Because her opponent advanced further into the semi-finals, Mendy offered another shot for the bronze medal by entering the repechage rounds. Unfortunately, she was defeated in her first match by Ukraine's Nataliya Smal, who successfully scored a waza-ari-awasete-ippon (full point) and a kuchiki taoshi is a single leg takedown in Judo adopted later by the Kodokan i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gévrise Émane
Gévrise Émane (born 27 July 1982) is a French judoka. She was the European champion in the women's 63 kg weight class. Emane first gained attention at the 2005 World Judo Championships in Cairo, Egypt where she won the silver medal in the women's 70 kg class. Next year, Emane won her first European title at the 2006 European Judo Championships in Tampere after an ippon in the final, against the German Heide Wollert. Emane became the world champion for the first time at the 2007 World Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro by defeating Ronda Rousey of United States by points in the final match. After moving down in weight to the 63 kg class in 2009, Emane claimed her second World Championship title at the 2011 World Judo Championships in Paris, where she beat two-time world champion Yoshie Ueno is a Japanese judoka. She won the gold medal in the Half-middleweight (63 kg) division at the 2009 World Judo Championships and in 2010, in 2011 she lost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leire Iglesias
Leire Iglesias Armiño (born 7 April 1978 in Bilbao, Vizcaya) is a Spanish judoka, who played for the middleweight category. She is a five-time World Cup champion, and a silver medalist at the 2008 European Judo Championships in Lisbon, Portugal. She also won two bronze medals for the same division at the 1999 Summer Universiade in Palma de Mallorca, and at the 2003 Summer Universiade in Jeju City, South Korea. Iglesias represented Spain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's middleweight class (70 kg). In the preliminaries, she first defeated Brazil's Mayra Aguiar, and eventually upset world champion Gévrise Émane, who was considered a top medal contender in this event. She reached only into the quarterfinal round, where she lost by an automatic ippon to German judoka and Olympic bronze medalist Annett Böhm. Because her opponent advanced further into the semi-finals, Iglesias offered another shot for the bronze medal by defeating U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayra Aguiar
Mayra Aguiar da Silva (born August 3 1991) is a Brazilian judoka. She was a bronze medallist in three consecutive Olympics, 2012, 2016 and 2020. She is also three-time world champion (2014, 2017, 2022). She is the first Brazilian woman to win three Olympic medals in an individual sport. Bio Mayra was born in Porto Alegre and began judo training when she was young. She trains under Kiko ( Antônio Carlos Pereira) in a group with João Derly, Tiago Camilo and others in SOGIPA. Derly and Camilo are also her sporting idols. In December 2008, she suffered a serious injury to her right knee. She was unable to perform any judo training for almost ten months, coming back only in September 2009. Judo She is one of the most talented Brazilian judokas in history. When she was 16 years old, she competed at 2007 Pan American Games and won a silver medal. In 2008, she competed at Olympic Games in Beijing but lost her only match with Spanish judoka Leire Iglesias. In 2009, she missed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Jacques
Catherine Jacques (born 28 September 1979, in Merksem) is a Belgian judoka who competed in the middleweight category (70 kg). She is a multiple-time national champion, and a four-time bronze medalist for her category at the European Judo Championships. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Jacques missed out of the Olympic podium in the women's 70 kg category, after she was defeated by Germany's Annett Böhm, who scored an ippon within thirty-eight seconds, in the bronze medal match. She was able to fight back against her opponent for a rematch to capture the bronze medal, this time at the 2005 World Judo Championships in Cairo, Egypt. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Jacques qualified again for the 70 kg category. She was eliminated in the second preliminary round, losing out to Italy's Ylenia Scapin Ylenia Scapin (born 8 January 1975 in Bolzano) is an Italian judoka. She won two Olympic medals in different weight classes, in 1996 and 2000 File:2000 Events C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ylenia Scapin
Ylenia Scapin (born 8 January 1975 in Bolzano) is an Italian judoka. She won two Olympic medals in different weight classes, in 1996 and 2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from .... External links * * * * Ylenia Scapinat raisport.rai.it 1975 births Living people Italian female judoka Judoka at the 1996 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2000 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka of Italy Olympic bronze medalists for Italy Sportspeople from Bolzano Olympic medalists in judo Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in judo Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games medalists in judo Competitors at the 1997 Med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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