Stephanie Grant

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Stephanie Grant
Personal information
Nationality  Australia
Born (1987-03-21) 21 March 1987
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 78 kg (172 lb)
Sport
Sport Judo
Event(s) 78 kg
Club University of Tasmania Judo Club
Coached by Milos Kovacik

Stephanie Grant (born March 21, 1987 in Hobart, Tasmania) is an Australian judoka, who played for the half-heavyweight category.[1] She is a two-time Australian judo champion, and a member of the University of Tasmania Judo Club, under her personal coach Milos Kovacik.

Grant represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's half-heavyweight class (78 kg). She received a bye for the second preliminary round match, before losing out to Canada's Marylise Levesque, who successfully scored an ippon (full point) and an osotogari (big outer reap), at one minute and ten seconds.[2][3][4]

References

  1. "Stephanie Grant". Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 29 January 2013. 
  2. "Women's Half Heavyweight (78kg/172 lbs) Preliminaries". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 January 2013. 
  3. "Stephanie Grant, Matt Cellotti out of Olympics on first judo bout". The Sun-Herald. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2013. 
  4. "Canadian judokas Morgan, Levesque bounced from Games". CBC Sports. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2013. 

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