Nicolas Gill
Nicolas Gill (born April 24, 1972 in Montreal ) is a former Canadian judoka . He won two medals in Olympic Games and three in world championships.
Career
The 1.85 m tall Nicolas Gill fought in the middleweight division, the weight class up to 86 kilograms, until 1996. In 1990 he won his first international title at the Pan American Championships. In 1991 he was seventh at the World Championships . At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona he defeated the Japanese world champion from 1991 Hirotaka Okada in the quarter-finals , and in the semifinals he was defeated by the Poland Waldemar Legień . By defeating the Romanian Adrian Croitoru , Gill won the bronze medal. Three months after the Olympic Games, he lost at the Junior World Championships in the final against the Japanese Masaru Tanabe .
The 1993 Judo World Championships were held in Hamilton , Ontario. In front of a home crowd, Gill reached the final and received the silver medal after his defeat against the Japanese Yoshio Nakamura . This was the only medal for the host nation's team. In 1994, Gill received a bronze medal at the Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg. At the Pan American Championships, he finished second behind the Brazilian Carlos Honorato . He also faced a Brazilian in the final of the 1995 Pan American Games , this time winning the fight against Carlos Hespanha . At the Judo World Championships in Chiba in 1995, he was defeated in the semifinals to the South Korean Jeon Ki-young , in the battle for the bronze medal Gill defeated the French Frédéric Demontfaucon . In 1996 he lost to the German Marko Spittka and the Dutch Mark Huizinga at the Olympic Games in Atlanta and finished in seventh place.
At the end of 1996, Gill switched to light heavyweight and won the title at the student world championships in his new weight class. In 1998 he won the Pan American Championships, the following year he won the 1999 Pan American Games final against Cuban Yosvani Kessel . At the World Championships in Birmingham he was defeated early on by the South Korean Jang Sung-ho , after four victories in the round of hope he received a bronze medal. In July 2000, Gill won the Commonwealth Championships. At the Olympic Games in Sydney he reached the final, after his defeat against the Japanese Kōsei Inoue he received the silver medal.
In 2001 at the World Championships in Munich , Gill finished seventh. In 2002 he won the Commonwealth Games and the Pan American Championships. In the final of the Pan American Games in 2003 he was defeated by the Brazilian Mario Sabino . At the World Championships in Osaka he was defeated in the semifinals by Kosei Inoue and in the battle for bronze to the Belarusian Ihar Makarau . After his first round defeat against the Italian Michele Monti at the Olympic Games in Athens , Nicolas Gill's active career ended.
Subsequently, Nicolas Gill was a coach, including Antoine Valois-Fortier . From 2009 he was head coach of the Canadian judoka. In 2016 he became CEO of the Canadian Judo Federation.
Canadian championship title
- Middleweight: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996
- Light Heavyweight: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 .
Web links
- Nicolas Gill in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Nicolas Gill on judoinside.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ New Role for Nicolas Gill as CEO of Judo Canada (message on judoinside.com from October 16, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gill, Nicolas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian judoka |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |