Gella Vandecaveye
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 June 1973 |
| Occupation | Judoka |
| Website | www |
| Sport | |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sport | Judo |
| Weight class | –61 kg, –63 kg |
| Rank | 7th dan black belt[1] |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Olympic Games |  (1996) |
| World Champ. | 
(1993, 2001) |
| European Champ. | 
(1994, 1996, 1997,1998, 1999, 2000, 2001) |
Medal record | |
| Profile at external databases | |
| IJF | 26324 |
| JudoInside.com | 194 |
| Updated on 1 June 2023 | |
Gella Vandecaveye (born 5 June 1973 in Kortrijk,[2] Belgium) is a judoka from Belgium who competed at four Olympic Games.[3]
At the 1996 Summer Olympics Vandecaveye won the silver medal in the women's half-middleweight category. Four years later, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, she captured a second medal: a bronze one in the same category. She became World Champion in 1993 and 2001 and was European champion seven times in the 1994–2001 period.
Vandecaveye was named "1999 European Judoka of the Year".[4]
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ "Druk bijgewoonde Raad van Hogere Graden - Judo Vlaanderen" (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 December 2024.
- ^ "Olympic blow for Belgium" (in German). 16 August 2000. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Gella Vandecaveye". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
- ^ European Judo News, Winter 1999.
External links
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Media related to Gella Vandecaveye at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
(in Dutch) - Gella Vandecaveye at the International Judo Federation
- Gella Vandecaveye at JudoInside.com
- Gella Vandecaveye at AllJudo.net (in French)
- Gella Vandecaveye at Olympics.com
- Gella Vandecaveye at Olympedia
- Gella Vandecaveye at The-Sports.org
- Judo Legends
World Judo Championships — Women's Half Middleweight | |
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1980–97: –61 kg • 1999–present: –63 kg | |
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Categories:
- 1973 births
- Living people
- Belgian female judoka
- Olympic judoka for Belgium
- Judoka at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Belgium
- Olympic bronze medalists for Belgium
- Olympic medalists in judo
- Sportspeople from Kortrijk
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Goodwill Games medalists in judo
- Competitors at the 1994 Goodwill Games