Lucie Décosse
Lucie Décosse (born 6 August 1981 in Chaumont) is a female French retired judoka.[2]
Career
Décosse competed in the half-middleweight (57–63 kg) category until 2008. Thereafter, she switched to the middleweight (63–70 kg) category. She was ranked number one in the world in both categories.
Décosse won a total of 13 medals (8 of them gold) at the Olympic Games, the World Judo Championships and the European Judo Championships. She won the most important medal of her career – the middleweight (63–70 kg) gold medal – at the 2012 Olympic Games.
Décosse retired from judo after losing her bronze medal match against South Korea's Kim Seong-Yeon at the 2013 World Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro.[3]
References
- "IJF Dan Grades Awardees" (PDF). International Judo Federation. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lucie Décosse". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- "Décosse prend sa retraite sur un échec". 30 August 2013.
External links
Media related to Lucie Décosse at Wikimedia Commons
- Lucie Décosse at the International Judo Federation
- Lucie Décosse at JudoInside.com
- Lucie Décosse at AllJudo.net (in French)
- Lucie Décosse at Olympics.com
- Lucie Décosse at Olympedia
- Lucie Décosse at The-Sports.org
- Videos of Lucie Décosse in action (Judovision)
- Lucie Décosse Factfile by L'Équipe
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