Margaret Castro
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| Born | August 22, 1959 (age 64) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 190 lb (86 kg)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Margaret "Margie" Castro (born August 22, 1959),[2] also known as Margaret Castro-Gomez,[3] is a former Olympic-level female judo athlete for the United States[4] from Brooklyn, New York.[5][6]
Competitive career
Castro is rather tall at 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) and had a competitive weight of 190 lbs.[1] In 1977, at the age of 17, she made history by becoming the youngest woman to win the International Championships.[7] She is an 11-time national champion[3] who competed against the likes of fellow American Maureen Braziel during her competitive career.[6] She won the open weight class but gained silver at the 1987 Pan American Games, losing to Nilmaris Santini. She won three world championships by the time she went to the 1988 Olympics[3] where judo was a demonstration sport and she won a Bronze Medal in the +72 kg division,[4] coached by Rusty Kanokogi.[4] This ended her competitive career.[2] She was inducted to the USA Judo Hall of Fame.[3]
See also
- 1987 World Judo Championships
- 1984 World Judo Championships
- 1982 World Judo Championships
- Judo at the 1983 Pan American Games
References
- ^ a b "THE SEOUL OLYMPICS; The Games, From Archery to Yachting: Demonstration Sports – Judo (Women's)". September 11, 1988.
- ^ a b "Margaret Castro, Judoka, JudoInside".
- ^ a b c d "USA Judo Hall of Fame ATHLETE". Team USA. Archived from the original on January 13, 2017. Retrieved December 31, 2014.
- ^ a b c "US Olympic Judo Teams 1964 to present". Archived from the original on June 26, 2014. Retrieved December 31, 2014.
- ^ "U.S. MEN WIN IN BASKETBALL". August 16, 1983.
- ^ a b "Black Belt".
- ^ "The All-New Book of Lists for Kids".
- Living people
- Judoka trainers
- American female judoka
- Judoka at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic judoka of the United States
- 1959 births
- World judo champions
- Sportspeople from Brooklyn
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States
- Pan American Games medalists in judo
- Judoka at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Judoka at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games