Paula Pareto

Paula Pareto
Paula Pareto in 2016
Full name	Paula Belén Pareto
nation	Argentina
birthday	January 16, 1986
place of birth	San Fernando ,  Argentina
size	150 cm
Weight	48 kg
job	Medicin
Career
society	Estudiantes de La Plata
status	active

Paula Pareto medal table
Judo
Argentina
Olympic games
gold	2016 Rio de Janeiro	up to 48 kg
bronze	2008 Beijing	up to 48 kg
World championships
gold	2015 Astana	up to 48 kg
silver	2014 Chelyabinsk	up to 48 kg
bronze	2018 Baku	up to 48 kg
Pan American Games
gold	2011 Guadalajara	up to 48 kg
silver	2015 Toronto	up to 48 kg
bronze	2007 Rio de Janeiro	up to 48 kg
Pan American Judo Championships
gold	2009 Buenos Aires	up to 48 kg
gold	2011 Guadalajara	up to 48 kg
gold	2017 Panama	up to 48 kg
gold	2018 San José	up to 48 kg
silver	2005 Caguas	up to 44 kg
silver	2015 Edmonton	up to 48 kg
silver	2016 Havana	up to 48 kg
bronze	2008 Miami	up to 48 kg
bronze	2010 San Salvador	up to 48 kg
bronze	2013 San José	up to 48 kg
bronze	2014 Guayaquil	up to 48 kg
South American Games
gold	2010 Medellín	up to 48 kg
gold	2014 Santiago de Chile	up to 48 kg
silver	2006 Buenos Aires	up to 48 kg

Paula Pareto (born January 16, 1986 in San Fernando ) is an Argentine judoka . Since the mid-2000s she has regularly won medals at major events and thus became world champion in the class up to 48 kg in 2015 and Olympic champion in the same weight class in 2016. Due to her small height of 1.50 m, she is also known as La Peque (in German about the little one ), especially in her home country .

life and career

Beginnings

Paula Pareto was born on January 16, 1986 in the city ​​of San Fernando, part of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area , and grew up in Tigre , on the northwestern edge of the metropolitan area. In Tigre she grew up next to a brother who was around two years younger, Marco, who accompanied her on most of her trips to various tournaments, and her sister, Estefanía, who was almost two years older and later became a psychologist. She began swimming at the age of four, but switched to gymnastics after a while . She found her inspiration to start judo when she was nine when her younger brother came home from school beaten up by classmates. Her father trained judo at a young age and subsequently registered his daughter with a judo club. He chose the local and renowned Club San Fernando . After she achieved her first successes not long afterwards, she moved to a larger club, which she also found with Estudiantes de La Plata . During her initial career as a judoka, the football enthusiast Pareto also wanted to pursue a career as a professional football player, but decided against it and pursued another career in judo. Paula Pareto is a supporter of the Boca Juniors soccer team , as well as a supporter of the soccer team of her home club Estudiantes de La Plata. After various regional and national successes and after she started her junior and adult career in the weight class up to 44 kg, the first major successes followed in the first half of the 2000s.

First medals at major events

Among other things, she won the gold medal at the U-20 South American Championships in judo on March 30, 2003 in the class up to 44 kg and a year later came second at the same major tournament in the same weight class. In November 2004 she also won the gold medal at the South American Championships in Judo ( Campeonato Sul Americano de Judo ) in the class up to 44 kg. In May 2005 she appeared in the 44-kilogram class and took second place at the Pan American Judo Championships in 2005 in Caguas and only had to admit defeat to the Colombian Maira Viveros . In 2006 she won the silver medal at the judo competition of the South American Games in 2006 in the capital Buenos Aires . At the Pan American Judo Championships of the following year , she could no longer build on these successes and finished in fifth place. She also held the same position in the 2007 championships . In this year she came for the first time at the Pan American Games used and occupied this together with the US-American Jeanette Rodriguez to third place and shared with the bronze medal. A little over a month later, she took part in the Judo World Championships in 2007 in Rio de Janeiro , where she finished in fifth place.

On the way to the top of the world

At the Pan-American Judo Championships in Miami in 2008 , the Argentine made it back on the podium and achieved bronze medals in the 48-kilogram class together with Glenda Miranda from Ecuador behind Daniela Polzin (silver) and Yanet Bermoy (gold). In August of the same year, she finally took part in the judo competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . It was enough next to the Japanese Ryōko Tani for a third place behind Yanet Bermoy (silver) and Alina Alexandra Dumitru (gold), after she was defeated by the Japanese in the semifinals. The bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games was followed by a gold medal at the Pan American Judo Championships in 2009 in the capital Buenos Aires. She then completed an extensive year in 2010. In addition to gold at the South American Games in March 2010 , she won bronze at the side of Mexican Edna Carrillo behind Dayaris Mestre Álvarez (silver) and Sarah Menezes (gold) at the 2010 Pan-American Judo Championships and was eliminated at the Judo World Championships 2010 in Tokyo after three fights in the final of Pool A against the local hero Tomoko Fukumi and could not emerge as the winner in the final consolation round ( Repêchage ) when she was defeated by the South Korean Jung-Yeon Chung . Her competition year 2011 was also extremely successful, in which she emerged as the winner at two major events. After 2009, she won the gold medal for the second time at the Pan American Judo Championships 2011 in April and also made gold at the judo events of the Pan American Games 2011 that took place at the end of October .

Establishment in the top group of the world rankings

The successes in the competition year 2012, however, were largely absent; In addition to a fifth place at the Pan American Judo Championships in 2012 in Montreal , she also only achieved a fifth place at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London . Here she had defeated the Italian Elena Moretti in the second round, in which she had entered , but lost in the subsequent quarter-finals to the Japanese Tomoko Fukumi. After a victory in the consolation round against the number 1 in the world, Mönkhbatyn Urantsetseg from Mongolia , she failed in the battle for the bronze medal against the Belgian Charline Van Snick . From 2013 she fought her way back to the top group in the world and achieved the bronze medal behind Dayaris Mestre Álvarez (silver) and Sarah Menezes (gold) at the Pan American Judo Championships 2013 in San José , Costa Rica , together with Edna Carrillo; the exact same result as three years earlier. Numerous successes followed in 2014, when she completed her medical studies at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in March . This year she not only won the gold medal at the 2014 South American Games in Santiago de Chile , but also won bronze at the 2014 Pan American Judo Championships , once again alongside the Mexican Edna Carrillo. After participating in the World Cup several times, she only made it onto the podium for the first time at the 2014 Judo World Championships in Chelyabinsk , taking second place behind 19-year-old Japanese Ami Kondo .

World Champion 2015 and Olympic Champion 2016

The year 2015 was even more successful; after a second place behind the Brazilian Sarah Menezes at the Pan American Judo Championships 2015 in April, Pareto also won silver (this time behind Dayaris Mestre Álvarez) at the Pan American Games 2015 in Toronto in July. At the subsequent Judo World Championships in 2015 in the Kazakh capital Astana, she won her first world title and defeated her rival Haruna Asami from Japan in the final . For her achievements and successes to date, she was honored with the Olimpia Award , which is given annually to the best Argentine athletes, in December 2015 . After she was in the top group of the world rankings in the weight class up to 48 kilograms in the previous years, she fought for first place in 2015, especially with the Mongolian Mönkhbatyn Urantsetseg, but always remained second or third. After a silver medal at the Pan American Judo Championships 2016 in Havana at the end of April 2016, Paula Pareto took part in the judo competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in August 2016 . In her third Olympic Games, the Argentine prevailed against the competition from the second round in which she entered. After a second round win over Irina Dolgowa from Russia , she defeated Éva Csernoviczki from Hungary in the quarterfinals and was able to defeat Ami Kondo from Japan in the semifinals. In the final fight against South Korean Jeong Bo-kyeong, Pareto also prevailed as the winner and won the first gold medal in judo for Argentina. In the world rankings published before the 2016 Summer Olympics on July 26, 2016, the Argentine was in third place in the category up to 48 kg, three points behind Ami Kondo and 460 points behind Mönkhbatyn Urantsetseg.

2017 and 2018

Pareto at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games at an award ceremony.

In 2017 and 2018 Pareto won the Pan American Championships. At the 2018 World Championships in Baku, she lost in the semifinals to the eventual world champion Darja Bilodid from Ukraine. In the battle for the bronze medal, she defeated the Portuguese Catarina Costa .

National successes

Status according to the official website from 2008/09:

• Winner of the Campeona Nacional Apertura 1997
• Winner of the Campeona Nacional Clausura 1998
• Winner of the Campeona Nacional Apertura 1999
• Winner of the Campeona Nacional Clausura 2000
• Winner of the Subcampeona Nacional Clausura 2001
• Winner of the Campeona Nacional Apertura 2003
• Winner of the Campeona Nacional Clausura 2003
• Winner of the Campeona Nacional Apertura 2004
• Winner of the Subcampeona Nacional Apertura 2006
• Winner of the Campeona Nacional Clausura 2006
• Winner of the Campeona Nacional Clausura 2007
• Winner of the Campeona Nacional Apertura 2008
• Winner of the Campeona Nacional Clausura 2008
• Winner of the Campeona Nacional Apertura 2009

Web links

Commons : Paula Pareto  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Paula Pareto on Judoinside (English)
• Paula Pareto on the official website of the 2016 Olympic Summer Games

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PAULA PARETO, BRONCE - Toda la felicidad envuelta en un cuerpo de muñeca ( Memento of March 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), accessed on August 10, 2016
2. ↑ ^{a b} Profile on the official website ( memento from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), accessed on August 10, 2016
3. ^ Paula Pareto Olimpia de Oro: premio a la constancia de una pequeña gigante (Spanish), accessed on August 10, 2016
4. ↑ Paula Pareto hizo historia en Río y Argentina tiene su primer oro (Spanish), accessed on August 10, 2016
5. ↑ IJF Senior World Ranking List (July 26, 2016) ( Memento from August 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English; pdf), accessed on August 10, 2016