Karen Briggs

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Karen Valerie Briggs , after marriage to Karen Valerie Inman , (born April 11, 1963 in Kingston upon Hull ) is a former British judoka who was four times world champion.

Athletic career

Karen Briggs fought in the super light weight all her career, only in 1985 she tried her hand in light weight.

She won her first international medal at the European Championships in 1981 when she won a bronze medal behind the German Birgit Friedrich and the Italian Anna De Novellis . In 1982 she reached the finals in Oslo and won her first European title by defeating De Novellis. At the Judo World Championships in 1982 , she won the final against the French Marie-France Colignon . In 1983 she won her second European title by defeating the Italian Anna-Maria Valvano . In 1984 the third title followed in Pirmasens with a final victory over Frenchwoman Fabienne Boffin . In the final of the Judo World Championships in 1984 , like two years before, she won against the French Colignon.

The 1985 European Championships in Landskrona were the only international title fights in which Briggs competed in the light weight division. After losing to French Pascale Doger, Briggs won the bronze medal.

Three months after the European Championships, Briggs won the super lightweight again at the world cup tournament in Leonding. Briggs won her fourth title at the 1986 European Championships in London, and in the final she defeated the Spaniard Dolores Veguillas . In the same year she won the Commonwealth Games . In October 1986 Briggs defeated the Japanese Fumiko Ezaki in the final of the World Championships in Maastricht . In 1987 Briggs won her fifth European title by beating Poland's Anna Chodakowska in the final . At the 1987 World Championships in Essen, she lost to Darlene Anaya from the United States in the round of 16 and was eliminated early for the first time after three consecutive world championships.

After a medalless year in 1988, Briggs lost to the French Cécile Nowak in the final of the European Championships in 1989 . At the Judo World Championships in Belgrade in 1989 , Briggs won her fourth title by beating Fumiko Ezaki in the final. Briggs won the Commonwealth Games in Auckland in February 1990 . At the European Championships in 1990 in Frankfurt, as in the previous year, she received the silver medal behind Cécile Nowak, in 1991 in Prague Nowak won the final over Karen Briggs for the third time in a row. In the final of the 1991 World Judo Championships in Barcelona, ​​Nowak won again over Briggs. The Olympic premiere of women's judo at the Olympic Games in Barcelona was Karen Briggs' last major competition. After three victories, she lost to the Japanese Ryōko Tamura in the semifinals , and the British lost the fight for the bronze medal to the Turkish Hülya Şenyurt .

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SURNAME Briggs, Karen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Briggs, Karen Valerie (full name); Inman, Karen Valerie (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British judoka
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston upon Hull