Narelle Hill

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Narelle Mary Hill (born October 27, 1969 in Canberra ) is an Australian judoka . Her height is 1.62 m.

Career

Her father Colin Hill is an Australian national judo trainer. All of her eight siblings play judo. Her brother Tom (* 1974) and her sister Jenny (* 1972) also took part in Judo in the Olympic Games , albeit four years later than Narelle. Narelle Hill started judo in 1978 at the Marist Judo Club in Canberra, where she is still a trainer 31 years later. As a B-trainer she has the 3rd Dan . During the torch relay for the 2000 Olympics , she carried the Olympic flame through Canberra.

successes

For the first time she competed for Australia in 1988 at the Oceanic Championships. In the class up to 66 kg she received a gold medal. She won a bronze medal (U66) at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland in 1990 . She won the US Open in 1991 (U66) and 1992 (U61), both of which were held in Colorado Springs . At the Oceanic Championships in Auckland in 1992, she received a silver medal both in the class up to 66 kg and in the open weight class. She also received a silver medal in the class up to 56 kg at the British Open 1994 in Birmingham . In the same year she won gold (U56) at the Oceanic Championships in Sydney . The Oceanic Championships 1996 in Auckland she was able to win in the U56 class. She took part in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta in the lightweight (then up to 56 kg), but lost her fights against the later Olympic champion Isabel Fernández from Spain and the Azerbaijani Zulfiya Hüseynova. Narelle Hill ended her active judo career in 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Judo: How nine judo siblings settle fights at home . Article by Sharon Labi, AAP News, August 1, 2002 (no longer online)
personal data
SURNAME Hill, Narelle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hill, Narelle Mary (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian judoka
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Canberra