Lucija Polavder (born 15 December 1984 in

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)Factfile of Lucija Polavder
on JudoInside.com is a Slovene

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. Polavder competed at the

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where she didn't advance from the first round. At the

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she advanced to the semifinals, where she was defeated by

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ese

Maki Tsukada (born January 5, 1982) is a Japanese judoka, who was born in Shimotsuma, Ibaraki Prefecture. She won the Women's +78 kg category gold medal at the Athens Olympic in 2004 and the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics. In September 2003, T ...

. In the bronze medal match, Polavder defeated

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n Kim Na-Young and became the second Slovenian judoka to win a medal at the Olympics (after

Urška Žolnir Urška Žolnir (born 9 October 1981) is a Slovenian retired judoka and a politician. She's a member of Judo Club Sankaku Celje. She won the bronze medal in the half-middleweight (–63 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics and gold me ...

in 2004).

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