Gella Vandecaveye
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| Medal record | ||
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| Women's Judo | ||
Representing  Belgium
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1996 Atlanta | -61 kg |
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2000 Sydney | -63 kg |
| World Championships | ||
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1993 Hamilton | -61 kg |
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2001 Munich | -63 kg |
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1997 Paris | -61 kg |
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1999 Birmingham | -63 kg |
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1995 Chiba | -61 kg |
| European Championships | ||
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1994 Gdańsk | -61 kg |
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1996 The Hague | -61 kg |
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1997 Ostend | -61 kg |
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1998 Oviedo | -63 kg |
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1999 Bratislava | -63 kg |
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2000 Wrocław | -63 kg |
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2001 Paris | -63 kg |
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2003 Düsseldorf | -63 kg |
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1995 Birmingham | -61 kg |
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2002 Maribor | -63 kg |
Gella Vandecaveye (born 5 June 1973 in Kortrijk, Belgium) is a judoka from Belgium.
At the 1996 Summer Olympics she 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.
Gella Vandecaveye was named "1999 European Judoka of the Year".[1]
Footnotes
Sources
- Judo Legends
- Factfile at JudoInside.com
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from December 2010
- 1973 births
- Living people
- Belgian judoka
- Olympic judoka of Belgium
- 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
- People from Kortrijk
- Flemish sportspeople
- Female judoka
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics