Urška Žolnir

Urška Žolnir

Medal record
Representing  Slovenia
Women's Judo
Olympic Games
2012 London –63 kg
2004 Athens –63 kg
World Championships
2005 Cairo –63 kg
2011 Paris –63 kg
European Championships
2009 Tbilisi –63 kg
2007 Belgrade –63 kg
2008 Lisbon –63 kg
2011 Istanbul –63 kg
Mediterranean Games
2009 Pescara –63 kg
2005 Almeria –63 kg
Military World Games
2003 Catania –63 kg
2011 Rio de Janeiro –63 kg

Urška Žolnir (born 9 October 1981) is a Slovenian judoka. She's a member of Judo Club Sankaku Celje. She is the first Slovenian female Olympic gold winner.[1]

She won the bronze medal in the half-middleweight (–63 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics and gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in the same division.[2][3] That makes her the most successful Slovenian judoka of all time.

She was the Slovenian flagbearer at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

References

Olympic Games
Preceded by
Beno Lapajne
Flagbearer for  Slovenia
Beijing 2008
Succeeded by
Peter Kauzer


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