Jaana Ronkainen

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Jaana Ronkainen (born November 22, 1965 in Oulu ) is a former Finnish judoka . She was European champion in 1989 and also won one silver and one bronze at European championships.

Athletic career

Until 1984 Ronkainen fought in the super lightweight, the weight class up to 48 kilograms. At the European Championships in Oslo in 1982 , she won a bronze medal behind the British Karen Briggs and the Italian Anna De Novellis . In the following year she finished fifth at the 1983 European Championships in Genoa, in the battle for bronze she was defeated by the German Birgit Friedrich . In 1984 Ronkainen was fifth at the World Championships in Vienna , where she lost the battle for bronze against the Australian Julie Reardon .

From 1985 to 1991 Jaana Ronkainen competed in the half-light weight category, the weight class up to 52 kilograms. At the 1985 European Championships in Landskrona, she lost the battle for bronze against Edith Hrovat from Austria. In 1986 she was seventh at the World Championships in Maastricht . She also finished seventh the following year at the European Championships in Paris in 1987 . In 1988 she reached the final at the European Championships in Pamplona and lost to the Italian Alessandra Giungi . In the same year she won a bronze medal at the world championships for students. In 1989 the European Championships took place in Helsinki. Jaana Ronkainen defeated Tatjana Gawrilowa from the Soviet Union in the round of 16, in the quarter-finals she won against the Hungarian Katalin Parragh . After her semi-final victory against Joanna Majdan from Poland , she won the final against Dominique Brun from France . Ronkainen won one of three gold medals for Finland in front of a home crowd. In 1990 she finished second behind the Belgian Christel Deliège at the Paris World Cup. At the European Championships in 1990 she finished seventh, in 1991 in Prague she was fifth again.

Ronkainen won ten Finnish championship titles:

  • Super light weight: 1981, 1982, 1983
  • Half light weight: 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
  • Lightweight: 1991, 1992

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  2. ↑ World Cup in Paris 1990 at judoinside.com
  3. ↑ Career overview at judoinside.com
personal data
SURNAME Ronkainen, Jaana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish judoka
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Oulu