Gisèle Mendy

Gisèle Mendy
Personal information
Nationality  Senegal
Born (1979-12-19) 19 December 1979
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport Judo
Event(s) 70 kg
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing  Senegal
All-Africa Games
2007 Algiers 70 kg
African Championships
2008 Agadir 70 kg
2005 Port Elizabeth 70 kg
2006 Port Louis 70 kg

Gisèle Mendy (born December 19, 1979) is a Senegalese judoka, who played for the middleweight category.[1] She won three medals for her division at the African Judo Championships (2005, 2006, and 2008).[2][3][4] She also captured a silver medal in the same division at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria, losing out to Algeria's Rachida Ouerdane.[5][6]

Mendy represented Senegal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's 70 kg class. She lost the first preliminary round match, by an ippon (full point) and a te gatame (hand armlock), to German judoka and Olympic bronze medalist Annett Böhm.[7] Because her opponent advanced further into the semi-finals, Mendy offered another shot for the bronze medal by entering the repechage rounds. Unfortunately, she was defeated in her first match by Ukraine's Nataliya Smal, who successfully scored a waza-ari-awasete-ippon (full point) and a kuchiki taoshi (single leg takedown), at fifty-two seconds.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Gisèle Mendy". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 25 January 2013.Archived February 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ "2005 African Championships – Port Elizabeth, South Africa". Judo Inside. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "2006 African Championships – Port Louis, Mauritius". Judo Inside. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
  4. ↑ "2008 African Championships – Agadir, Morocco". Judo Inside. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
  5. ↑ "Algeria wins first gold on its way to dare African mighty nations". People's Daily Online (China). 13 July 2007. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
  6. ↑ Aflou, Lyes (13 July 2007). "First medals claimed in All Africa Games". Magharebia. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "Women's Middleweight (70kg/154 lbs) Preliminaries". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
  8. ↑ "Women's Middleweight (70kg/154 lbs) Repechage". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 25 January 2013.


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