Lucie Décosse (born 6 August 1981 in

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) is a retired female French

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Career

Décosse competed in the half-middleweight (57–63 kg) category until 2008. Thereafter, she switched to the middleweight (63–70 kg) category. She was ranked number one in the world in both categories. Décosse won a total of 13 medals (8 of them gold) at the

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, the

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and the

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. She won the most important medal of her career – the middleweight (63–70 kg) gold medal – at the 2012 Olympic Games. Décosse retired from judo after losing her bronze medal match against

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's Kim Seong-Yeon at the 2013 World Judo Championships in

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Video

Videos of Lucie Décosse in action
(judovision.org)

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1981 births Living people Olympic judoka of France Olympic gold medalists for France Olympic silver medalists for France Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics French female judoka French people of French Guianan descent Olympic medalists in judo Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite European champions for France Mediterranean Games silver medalists for France Mediterranean Games medalists in judo Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games People from Chaumont, Haute-Marne Sportspeople from Haute-Marne 21st-century French women {{France-judo-bio-stub