Laura Vargas cook
Laura Vargas cook 
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| nation | Germany |
| birthday | June 29, 1990 |
| place of birth | Berlin , Germany |
| size | 173 cm |
| job | PhD student in the field of mathematics |
| Career | |
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| graduation |
4th Dan - Yondan |
| society | First Berlin judo club |
| Trainer | Costel Danculea, Maxime Lambert |
| status | resigned |
| End of career | 2019 |
Laura Vargas Koch (born June 29, 1990 in Berlin ) is a former German judoka (graduation: 4th Dan). She started for the First Berlin Judo Club and competed in the Bundesliga for TSV Großhadern.
Life
Vargas Koch had been practicing judo since she was eight, but was not particularly successful in adolescence, which only changed at the end of her time as a junior. Their first club was SC Lurich 02 in Berlin. Then she switched to the First Berlin JC, where she was trained by Carsten von Leupoldt and the Berlin base trainer Carsten Borkowski and developed her technical profile. The main technique of the left-wing fighter is uchi-mata . With Soto-maki-komi, a special technique, she was z. B. successful in the quarter-finals of the Olympic Games in Rio 2016 against Bernadette Graf (Austria). Laura Vargas Koch competed in the weight class up to 70 kg, which is heavily occupied at the DJB, so that she had training partners and competitors in Giovanna Scoccimarro , Miriam Butkereit and Szaundra Dietrich at the Federal Performance Center in Cologne.
Vargas Koch rose to the top in 2013. As U23 European champion, she won bronze at the Grand Slam in Paris and silver at the Grand Prix in Düsseldorf.
One of her greatest successes was the bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In the decisive fight against the world number two María Bernabéu (Spain), she successfully used Ko-uchi-gake in the Golden Score. She then suffered a cruciate ligament rupture in autumn 2016 and was absent from the IJF World Series for a year. On her return, she was successful with a bronze medal at the Grand Prix in The Hague, but at the end of 2017 she injured her knee again at the Grand Slam in Tokyo and had to take another six-month break, with a foot injury. In May 2018 she returned to competition at the Grand Prix in Hohhot .
In addition to her bronze medal in Rio, Vargas Koch won silver at the Judo World Championships in 2013 and European Judo Championships in 2014 and 2015. She is three-time German champion and European champion in the U23 in 2011. In preparation for the Judo World Championships in Tokyo 2019 she drew Vargas Koch suffered another cruciate ligament tear. In February 2020, she announced her retirement from active competitive sports.
Laura Vargas Koch already had a master's degree in mathematics before the Olympic Games in Rio and has been a doctoral student at RWTH Aachen since then; she conducts research in the field of game theory.
successes
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| Laura Vargas Koch medal table |
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Judo - women up to 70 kg |
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 Germany
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| Olympic games | ||
| bronze | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | -70 kg |
| World championships | ||
| silver | 2013 Rio de Janeiro | -70 kg |
| European championships | ||
| silver | 2015 Baku | -70 kg |
| silver | 2014 Montpellier | -70 kg |
| bronze | 2013 Budapest | -70 kg |
| World Championships (team) | ||
| bronze | 2013 Rio de Janeiro | Women |
| European Championships (team) | ||
| silver | 2015 Baku | Women |
| silver | 2014 Montpellier | Women |
| bronze | 2013 Budapest | Women |
Olympic games
- Bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro
Championships
- German champion 2010, 2012 and 2014
- 2nd place European Championships U23 2010 Sarajevo
- 2nd place at Universiade Shenzhen 2011
- 1st place European Championships U23 2011 Tyumen
- 3rd place European Championships team 2013 Budapest
- 3rd place European Championships 2013 Budapest
- 2nd place World Championships 2013 Rio de Janeiro
- 3rd place World Championships 2013 Rio de Janeiro (team)
- 2nd place European Championships 2014 Montpellier
- 3rd place European Championships 2014 Montpellier (team)
Grand Prix, Grand Slam and World Cup
- 3rd place World Cup Rome 2011
- 2nd place World Cup Madrid 2011
- 3rd place World Cup Sofia 2011
- 5th place Kano Cup 2012
- 3rd place Grand Prix Quingdao 2012
- 1st place World Cup Tallinn 2012
- 1st place Grand Prix Rijeka 2013
- 3rd place Grand Slam Moscow 2013
- 2nd place Grand Slam Baku 2013
- 2nd place Grand Prix Düsseldorf 2013
- 3rd place Grand Slam Paris 2013
- 1st place Grand Prix Samsun 2014
- 1st place Grand Prix Havana 2014
- 3rd place Grand Prix Astana 2014
- 1st place Grand Prix Tashkent 2014
- 1st place Grand Slam Abu Dhabi 2014
- 2nd place Grand Prix Jeju 2014
- 3rd place Grand Slam Tokyo 2014
- 3rd place Grand Prix Budapest 2015
- 2nd place Grand Slam Paris 2015
- 1st place Grand Slam Abu Dhabi 2015
- 3rd place Grand Prix Jeju 2015
- 3rd place Grand Prix Düsseldorf 2016
Honors
In November 2013, Laura Vargas Koch was nominated for Berlin's Sportswoman of the Year and was voted 5th there.
For winning the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Rio, she received the silver bay leaf on November 1, 2016 .
literature
- Oliver Kauer-Berk: The technology trio of the Olympic third. So throws Laura Vargas Koch . In: Judo-Magazin 8/2018, pp. 16–24.
Web links
- Laura Vargas Koch on Judoinside (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oliver Kauer-Berk: The technology trio of the Olympic third. So throws Laura Vargas Koch . In: Judo-Magazin 8/2018, p. 16.
- ↑ Olympia 2016 Rio - Profile. (No longer available online.) In: Deutscher Judo Bund. Archived from the original on August 11, 2016 ; accessed on August 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Judoka Vargas Koch again with cruciate ligament tear , BZ August 18, 2019.
- ↑ Olympic bronze medalist Vargas Koch ended her career. Vote February 23, 2020
- ↑ Oliver Kauer-Berk: The technology trio of the Olympic third. So throws Laura Vargas Koch . In: Judo-Magazin 8/2018, p. 19.
- ↑ Official website of the "CHAMPIONS 2013, Berlin's Sportsman of the Year": champions-berlin.de (accessed on November 1, 2013)
- ↑ Press release from the Office of the Federal President of November 1, 2016: Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf. Retrieved March 31, 2017 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Varga's cook, Laura |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vargas cook, Laura |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German judoka |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |