Lucie Décosse
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Lucie Décosse (born 6 August 1981 in Chaumont) is a retired female French judoka.
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.[1]
Video[]
- Videos of Lucie Décosse in action (judovision.org)
References[]
- ^ "Décosse prend sa retraite sur un échec". 30 August 2013.
External links[]
- Factfile on Lucie Décosse by L'Équipe
- Lucie Décosse by www.judoinside.com
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- 1981 births
- Living people
- Olympic judoka of France
- Olympic gold medalists for France
- Olympic silver medalists for France
- Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- French female judoka
- French people of French Guianan descent
- Olympic medalists in judo
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Officers of the National Order of Merit (France)
- European champions for France
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for France
- Mediterranean Games medalists in judo
- Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
- Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
- French judo biography stubs