Raša Sraka

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Raša Sraka and her silver medal after the 2011 World Military Games

Raša Sraka (born October 10, 1979 in Ljubljana ) is a former Slovenian judoka . In 2003 she was European middleweight champion.

Athletic career

The 1.74 m tall judoka started her career in the middleweight division (up to 66 kg). After changing the weight classes , she started in 1998 and 1999 in the light middleweight division (up to 63 kg). From the year 2000 she fought in middleweight (up to 70 kg).

Raša Sraka was already at the Slovenian cadet championships in 1992. In 1997 she was second at the European Junior Championships. In 1998 she won a bronze medal at the Junior World Championships and the Junior European Championships. In 1999 she finished second in the World Military Games . In 2000 Raša Sraka won the military world championships and took third place in the world championships for students. In 2001 she defeated the Algerian Rachida Ouerdane in the final of the Mediterranean Games . Two months later, she finished second in the World Military Championships. In 2002 she won a bronze medal at the European Championships in Maribor in front of a home crowd. At the military world championships in Beijing in 2002, she won a bronze medal. In the following year she defeated the German Heide Wollert in the final of the European Championships in Düsseldorf . At the end of 2003 she won a bronze medal at the World Military Games. In 2004 Sraka lost to the French Amina Abdellatif in the round of 16 of the European Championships in Bucharest, but received a bronze medal after four wins in the hope round. In August 2004 at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Sraka lost to the Japanese Masae Ueno in the round of 16 . In the hope round, she first defeated Celita Schutz from the United States, but was then eliminated against the Belgian Catherine Jacques .

In 2005 Raša Sraka finished fifth at the European Championships. In the final of the Mediterranean Games, she lost to the Italian Ylenia Scapin . Three weeks later she won the World Military Championships. At the World Championships in Cairo, she defeated the Olympic champion Masae Ueno in her first fight and was only defeated in the semifinals by the French Gévrise Émane . In the battle for a bronze medal, she defeated the German Annett Böhm . In 2006, Sraka finished seventh at the European Championships. At the end of 2006 she won the World Military Championships. In 2007 she won a bronze medal at the World Military Games. After a seventh place at the 2008 European Championships, she did not take part in the 2008 Olympic Games.

In 2009 she reached the final of the Mediterranean Games for the third time in a row and won the silver medal behind Frenchwoman Marie Pasquet . At the 2009 World Championships , she finished seventh. The following year she reached the final of the 2010 European Championships in Vienna, where she was defeated by the Hungarian Anett Mészáros . At the World Championships in Tokyo, she lost to French Lucie Décosse in the quarter-finals . With victories over the Japanese Mina Watanabe and the Dutch Edith Bosch in the round of hope, Raša Sraka won her second bronze medal at world championships after 2005. In 2011 she finished fifth at the European Championships in Istanbul and at the World Championships in Paris. Between these two championships she won silver at the World Military Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Raša Sraka won her last international medal at the 2012 European Championships in Chelyabinsk, when she only lost in the semifinals to Katarzyna Kłys from Poland . At the end of her career, she took part in the 2012 Olympic Games in London. In the last sixteen she defeated the Spaniard Cecilia Blanco . After defeats in the quarterfinals against South Korean Hwang Ye-sul and in the round of hope against Colombian Yuri Alvear , Sraka finished in seventh place.

Slovenian championship title

Raša Sraka won ten national championship titles and was second behind Anamari Velenšek in 2009 .

  • Light Middleweight: 1998
  • Middleweight: 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2011

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Mediterranean Games 2001 at judoinside.com
  2. ↑ European Championships 2003 at judoinside.com
  3. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  4. ↑ Olympic match record at sportsreference.com
  5. ↑ Mediterranean Games 2005 at judoinside.com
  6. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  7. ↑ Mediterranean Games 2009 at judoinside.com
  8. ↑ Career overview at judoinside.com
  9. ↑ Slovenian Championships 2009 at judoinside.com
personal data
SURNAME Sraka, Raša
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian judoka
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Ljubljana