Yarden Gerbi

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Yarden Gerbi
Yarden Gerbi.jpg
Personal information
Native name ירדן ג'רבי
Nickname(s) Jordan, Gerb, and Denush[1]
Born (1989-07-08) July 8, 1989 (age 34)
Netanya, Israel
Residence Netanya, Israel
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Weight -63 kg (139 lb.)[1]
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Sport
Country Israel
Sport Judo
Rank 1
Event(s) Women's 63 kg
Club Meitav Netanya
Coached by Shany Hershko
Achievements and titles
World finals World Champion (2013)
National finals Israeli Champion (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012)
Highest world ranking 1 (2013)
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing  Israel
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Rio de Janeiro –63 kg
Silver medal – second place 2014 Chelyabinsk –63 kg
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2012 Chelyabinsk –63 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Budapest –63 kg

Yarden Gerbi (Hebrew: ירדן ג'רבי‎, born July 8, 1989) is an Israeli judoka world champion.

She won the gold medal at the 2013 World Judo Championships in the category -63 kg (139 lbs.).[2][3] She won the Israeli championship five times by the age of 24, and was a silver medalist in the 2009 Maccabiah Games.

Personal life

Gerbi is Jewish, and was born in and resides in Netanya, Israel.[3][4][5] Her nicknames are Jordan, Gerb, and Denush.[1] She attended the Open University of Israel, studying Economics and Management.[1][6]

Judo career

Early career

Gerbi, who began judo at age 6, trains with club Meditav Netanya.[3] Shani Hershko, former coach of the Israeli women's national judo team, has been her trainer since childhood.[3][7]

Gerbi twice won the Israeli judo championship. She won the silver medal in the 2012 European Judo Championships, and bronze in the 2013 European Judo Championships.[3]

In 2007, she won the Israel Championships.[8] In 2008, Gerbi won the Israel Championships and the Under-23 Israel Championships, and took third in the Under-20 category in the European Championships.[9] In 2009, she won the Israel Championships and the Belo Horizonte World Cup, placed second in the 2009 Maccabiah Games, and took third place in the Qingdao Grand Prix.[9][10]

In 2010, she came in second in the Grand Prix Qingdao and the Baku World Cup and the Birmingham World Cup, third in the Warsaw World Cup, and came in 7th place at the World Championships in Tokyo.[9] In 2011, she won the Israeli Championships, came in second in the San Salvador World Cup and the Miami World Cup, third in the Moscow Grand Slam and the World Masters Baku, and fifth in the 2011 European Judo Championships.[9] However she was eliminated in the second round of the 2011 world championship and did not qualify for Israel's 2012 Olympic team.[3]

In 2012, she won the Tashkent World Cup and the Israel Championships, took second in the 2012 European Judo Championships in Russia, and took third in the Dusseldorf Grand Prix.[9][11]

In 2013, prior to the world championships she won the Grand Slam Baku and Grand Slam Moscow, and took second in the Samsung Grand Prix, and third in the Dusseldorf Grand Prix and the 2013 European Judo Championships.[8][9] She achieved a world ranking of No. 1 in May 2013.[12]

2013 World Champion

In August 2013, at the age of 24, she won the gold medal at the 2013 World Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro in the category -63 kg (139 lbs.), defeating each of her five opponents unconditionally.[2][3][13] She defeated No. 2-ranked Clarisse Agbegnenou of France, the European champion, in the final by dislocating her shoulder and rendering her unconscious with a chokehold in 43 seconds.[3][6][7][13][14] She recorded an ippon in each of her five fights on the way to the championship.[7][13] Commenting on the reaction from Israelis to her championship, she said: "I received three marriage proposals."[15]

Gerbi became the first Israeli to win a gold medal at the Judo World Championships.[14] Israelis Yael Arad (1991 – bronze, 1993 – silver), Oren Smadja (1995 – silver), and Ariel Ze’evi (2001 – silver) had each previously won a silver medal in the championships, and Alice Schlesinger had most recently won a bronze medal in 2009; also Olympic medals, which is Gerbi's next goal, have been won by Arad (Barcelona 1992 – silver), Smadja (Barcelona 1992 – bronze), and Ze’evi (Athens 2004 – bronze).[7][16]

She was voted Israeli Sports Personality of the Year in 2013 by the readers of The Jerusalem Post.[17]

2014 on

File:Cachola (POR) vs Gerbi (ISR) at the bronze final of the 2015 European Games.jpg
Gerbi (in blue) with Cachola from Portugal at the bronze final of the 2015 European Games (Baku)

At the 2014 Judo World Championship in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, Gerbi won the silver medal after losing by an ippon to Frenchwoman Clarice Agbegnenou in the final in the under-63 kilo category.[18][19]

In December 2014, she was named Israeli Sportswoman of the Year.[20]

In 2015 she got bronze at the 2015 European Games.

On 17 October 2015, Gerbi won the bronze medal in the Paris Grand Slam after defeating Miho Minei from Japan.[21] Two weeks later on 31 October 2015, she won the bronze again, this time in the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam, after defeating Juul Franssen from the Netherlands.[22]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sinai, Allon. "Israel's Gerbi takes gold at Judo World Championships". Jerusalem Post, August 29, 2013. Retrieved on August 30, 2013.
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  4. ↑ "Israeli Sports", Jewish Sports Review, Vol. 9, No. 11, Issue 107, p. 20, January/February 2015.
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