Giovanna Tortora

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Giovanna Tortora (born April 6, 1965 in Acerra ) is a former Italian judoka . She won a bronze medal at the 1993 World Championships and four bronze medals at European Championships.

Athletic career

The 1.54 m tall Giovanna Tortora competed in the super lightweight, the weight class up to 48 kilograms. In 1988, 1989, 1991 and 1995 she was Italian champion in this weight class. In 1988 she won the World Student Championships in Tbilisi. At the European Championships in Tampere in 1989, she was defeated in the quarter-finals by Frenchwoman Cécile Nowak . In the hope round she reached the battle for a bronze medal, which she lost to the Finn Marjo Vilhola . The following year she lost to the British Karen Briggs in the semi-finals of the 1990 European Championships in Frankfurt am Main , and in the battle for bronze she defeated the German Kerstin Emich . In 1991 at the European Championships in Prague she was again defeated by Karen Briggs in the semi-finals and, as in the previous year, she won bronze against Kerstin Emich. At the 1991 World Championships in Barcelona, ​​she lost in the quarterfinals to Karen Briggs and was eliminated in the hope round against the Canadian Brigitte Lastrade .

In 1992 at the European Championships in Paris, Tortora lost in the semifinals against Cécile Nowak, and she won the bronze medal by defeating the Israeli Batia Frantzuzu . In the summer of 1992, an Olympic judo tournament for women took place for the first time as part of the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona . Giovanna Tortora defeated Kerstin Emich in the second round and lost to Cécile Nowak in the quarter-finals. In the hope round, Tortora did not start her fight against the Turkish Hülya Şenyurt .

In 1993 at the 1993 World Championships in Hamilton Tortora defeated the Venezuelan María Villapol in the quarter-finals , and in the semifinals she was subject to the Japanese Ryoko Tamura . Tortora won a bronze medal by defeating the Spaniard Yolanda Soler . In 1995 at the European Championships in Birmingham , she beat Romanian Laura Moise-Moricz in the quarter -finals , lost to Yolanda Soler in the semi-finals and was defeated by Britain's Joyce Heron in the battle for bronze . At the 1995 World Championships in Chiba, Tortora was eliminated in her first fight against Belarusian Tazzjana Maskwina . At the European Championships in The Hague in 1996, she lost to French Sylvie Meloux in the quarterfinals . Tortora won bronze with victories in the round of hope over Hülya Şenyurt, the Russian Tatyana Kuwschinowa and Tazzjana Maskwina. At the end of her sporting career, Tortora reached the quarter-finals at the Olympic Games in Atlanta . There she was defeated by Ryōko Tamura, in the round of hope she retired in her first fight against Tazzjana Maskwina.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 425
  3. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  4. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 759
personal data
SURNAME Tortora, Giovanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian judoka
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Acerra