Leire Iglesias

Leire Iglesias
Personal information
Full name	Leire Iglesias Armiño
Nationality	Spain
Born	7 April 1978 (age 46); Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain
Occupation	Judoka
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Sport
Country	Spain
Sport	Judo
Weight class	‍–‍70 kg
Club	Judo Club Alicante
Achievements and titles
Olympic Games	5th (2008)
World Champ.	7th (2007)
European Champ.	(2008)
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing Spain
European Championships
World Juniors Championships
European Junior Championships
Summer Universiade
Mediterranean Games
Profile at external databases
IJF	1747
JudoInside.com	626
	Updated on 16 November 2022

Leire Iglesias Armiño^[a] (born 7 April 1978 in Bilbao, Vizcaya) is a Spanish judoka, who played for the middleweight category.^[1] She is a five-time World Cup champion, and a silver medalist at the 2008 European Judo Championships in Lisbon, Portugal. She also won two bronze medals for the same division at the 1999 Summer Universiade in Palma de Mallorca, and at the 2003 Summer Universiade in Jeju City, South Korea.

Iglesias represented Spain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's middleweight class (70 kg). In the preliminaries, she first defeated Brazil's Mayra Aguiar, and eventually upset world champion Gévrise Émane, who was considered a top medal contender in this event.^[2] She reached only into the quarterfinal round, where she lost by an automatic ippon to German judoka and Olympic bronze medalist Annett Böhm.^[3] Because her opponent advanced further into the semi-finals, Iglesias offered another shot for the bronze medal by defeating Ukraine's Nataliya Smal and Colombia's Yuri Alvear in the repechage rounds. She finished in fifth place, after losing out the bronze medal match to Dutch judoka and former silver medalist Edith Bosch, who successfully scored an ippon at three minutes and fourteen seconds.^[4]

Notes

^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Iglesias and the second or maternal family name is Armiño.

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Leire Iglesias". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
^ "Judo: Champions tumble on day of shocks". Terra. 13 August 2008. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
^ "Women's Middleweight (70kg/154 lbs) Preliminaries". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
^ "Women's Middleweight (70kg/154 lbs) Bronze Medal Contest B". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2012.

External links

Leire Iglesias at the International Judo Federation
Leire Iglesias at JudoInside.com
Leire Iglesias at AllJudo.net (in French)
Leire Iglesias at Olympics.com
Leire Iglesias at Olympedia
Leire Iglesias at The-Sports.org
NBC 2008 Olympics Profile

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[1] In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Iglesias and the second or maternal family name is Armiño.

[2] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Leire Iglesias". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2012.

[3] "Judo: Champions tumble on day of shocks". Terra. 13 August 2008. Retrieved 13 December 2012.

[4] "Women's Middleweight (70kg/154 lbs) Preliminaries". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2012.

[5] "Women's Middleweight (70kg/154 lbs) Bronze Medal Contest B". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2012.

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