Natasha Hernández

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Natasha Hernández (born April 19, 1966 ) is a former Venezuelan judoka . She won a world title and was a three-time Pan American champion.

Athletic career

Natasha Hernández started in the light middleweight division, the weight class up to 58 kilograms, and took second place behind the Canadian Susan Ulrich at the 1980 Pan-American championships.

From 1981 to 1983 she fought in the lightweight, the weight class up to 56 kilograms. In 1982 she won the Pan American Championships. At the World Championships in Paris, she was defeated in the battle for bronze Eve Aronoff from the United States. The following year she met in the final of the Pan American Games 1983 on Ann Maria Burns from the United States, Hernández received the silver medal.

In 1984, Hernández switched to light middleweight, which was now limited to 61 kilograms. In May she won the Pan American Championships. At the World Championships in Vienna she defeated the French defending champion Martine Rottier in the quarter -finals, the Italian Laura Di Toma in the semi-finals and the Dutch Chantal Han in the final . In 1986 she won the final of the Pan American Championships against the Brazilian Tania Ishii . At the end of her career, Natasha Hernández reached the final at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis in 1987 . She received the silver medal behind Lynn Roethke from the United States.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Pan American Championships 1980 at judoinside.com
  2. ↑ Pan American Games 1983 at judoinside.com
  3. ↑ Pan American Championships 1986 at judoinside.com
  4. ↑ Pan American Games in 1987 at judoinside.com
personal data
SURNAME Hernández, Natasha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan judoka
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1966