Lucie Décosse

Lucie Décosse

Lucie Décosse during the French medal winners' parade 2012 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Born (1981-08-06) 6 August 1981

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

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lucie Décosse.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/26/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.