Yarden Gerbi

Yarden Gerbi (2013)

Yarden Gerbi (born July 8, 1989 in Kfar Saba ) is a former Israeli judoka . She was Olympic third in 2016 and world champion 2013 in light middleweight, the weight class up to 63 kilograms.

Athletic career

Yarden Gerbi won the first of her eight Israeli championship titles in 2007. In 2008 she received a bronze medal at the Junior European Championships. In 2009 she won her first World Cup tournament in Belo Horizonte. At the Maccabiade 2009 , she lost in the final against the Brazilian Camila Minakawa . In 2010 she finished seventh at the World Championships in Tokyo . The following year she was fifth at the 2011 European Championships in Istanbul . At the European Championships in 2012 in Chelyabinsk she reached the final with victories over the Slovenian Urška Žolnir and the French Clarisse Agbegnenou and lost to the French Gévrise Émane . The London Olympics began Alice Schlesinger for Israel in the light middleweight.

In 2013 Gerbi won a bronze medal at the European Championships in Budapest after losing to the Slovenian Tina Trstenjak in the quarterfinals . At the World Championships in Rio de Janeiro , she defeated the Slovenian in the quarter-finals. After her semi-final victory over the Japanese Kana Abe , she defeated Clarisse Agbegnenou in the final. A year later, the 2013 draw was repeated at the World Championships in Chelyabinsk . In the quarter-finals she defeated the Slovenian Trstenjak and in the semi-finals a Japanese woman, in 2014 it was Miku Tashiro . In the final, like last year, she faced Agbegnenou from France, who won the gold medal this time. In 2015, the European Championships were held as part of the European Games in Baku . Yarden Gerbi lost to Tina Trstenjak in the semifinals, but won the battle for bronze against the Portuguese Ana Cachola . At the 2015 World Championships , Gerbi lost in the semifinals against Agbegnenou and ultimately finished fifth. The Israeli was also fifth at the 2016 European Championships in Kazan, where she was first defeated by Austrian Kathrin Unterwurzacher and then by Dutch Anicka van Emden . At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Gerbi lost to the Brazilian Mariana Silva in the quarter-finals , after beating the Chinese Junxia Yang and the Japanese Miku Tashiro, Gerbi received the bronze medal. A few months after the Olympic Games, Yarden Gerbi declared her sporting career over.

Web links

• Yarden Gerbi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Yarden Gerbi on judoinside.com