Majlinda Kelmendi

Majlinda Kelmendi
nation	Albania Kosovo
birthday	May 9, 1991
place of birth	Peć ,  SFR Yugoslavia
size	162 cm
Weight	51 kg
Career
society	Ippon Judo Club Peja
Trainer	Driton Kuka
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro up to 52 kg World championships gold 2013 Rio de Janeiro up to 52 kg gold 2014 Chelyabinsk up to 52 kg bronze 2019 Tokyo up to 52 kg European championships bronze 2013 Budapest up to 52 kg gold 2014 Montepellier up to 52 kg gold 2016 Kazan up to 52 kg gold 2017 Warsaw up to 52 kg gold 2019 Minsk up to 52 kg

Majlinda Kelmendi (born May 9, 1991 in Peć , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Kosovar - Albanian judoka .

Career

In 1999 Kelmendi started judo in her hometown of Peć. Your trainer is Driton Kuka .

She won the gold medal at the 2009 Junior World Championships in Paris . She was fifth at the 2010 Junior World Championships in Morocco and ninth in the 52 kg class at the 2010 Judo World Championships in Tokyo . Because of opposition from the International Olympic Committee and the United Nations , she was not allowed to represent Kosovo at the 2012 Olympic Games , and instead represented Albania .

She won gold at the Judo World Championships in 2013 . In 2014 she also won gold at the World Cup in Chelyabinsk ( Russia ).

On June 16, 2016, she refused a doping test by the French anti-doping agency AFLD during an international training camp in Saint-Cyprien . The IFJ had indicated to demand that it was not bound to the unannounced test.

She competed for Kosovo at the 2016 Olympic Games after its National Olympic Committee was accepted into the IOC. She led the Kosovar delegation as the flag bearer at the entry ceremony on August 6, 2016 and won gold in the competition - the first medal in Kosovo's first participation in the Olympic Games. In 2017 and 2019 Maljinda Kelmendi won two more European titles. Two months after the 2019 European Championships, she won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships.

literature

• Remo Geisser: In the name of the people . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 10, 2016, p. 31 ( full text [accessed December 2, 2017]).

Web links

Commons : Majlinda Kelmendi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Majlinda Kelmendi on Judoinside (English)
• Majlinda Kelmendi in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kelmendi: Association boss orders follow-up test , sport.de, August 9, 2016
2. ^ Judo: Kelmendi OK to refuse France drug test -IJF , Reuters, August 9, 2016
3. ^ Affaire Saint-Cyprien, la suite , L'Esprit du Judo, August 8, 2016