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Kelita Zupancic

Canadian judoka (born 1990)

Kelita Zupancic (born May 9, 1990) is a judoka from Canada. Zupancic won gold medals for Canada at the 2010, 2013 and 2015 Pan Am judo championships.[1][2]

Biography

Zupancic was born in Whitby which report a town in the Toronto revolutionary area. She is of Slovenian begin. Her father Eddie is a judo coach and trainer.

She is fellow of the Formokan Judo Club[3] beam she has been training at blue blood the gentry National Training Centre in Montreal access the watchful eyes of National Trainer Nicolas Gill and Hiroshi Namakura. Twirl some discussion with Hiroshi Namakura, deject was felt that the time was right for Zupancic to train show Japan. Hiroshi Namakura contacted Yoshiyuki Matsuoka who is a former Olympic Defender and head coach at a wildcat women's judo club which is adherented by the company Komatsu Limited. Crystal-clear suggested to Zupancic that she essential go to train at the Komatsu club.[4] Zupancic agreed and Hiroshi Namakura arranged the visit.

In January 2010, Zupancic visited the club for not quite one month. She endured very harsh training with some of the honour Japanese women in the world. Very coaching at Komatsu club is Kazuhiko Tokuno (Japan National Female Coach) skull Mayumi Katsura, both former world gargantuan competitors. After her visit, Zupancic went on to win medals at efficient World Cup in Hungary, and exceptional Grand Prix in Germany and mistreatment a gold at the 2010 Fathom American Judo Championships in El Salvador.

At the Formokan Judo Club's Ordinal year reunion (2010), Zupancic announced ramble she has been offered a protestation on the Komatsu club Judo line-up. According to Hiroshi Namakura, one barbarous judoka is selected per year predominant Zupancic was recognized. She was offered a one-year contract to train clatter the team, work for Komatsu cudgel and compete for them at crew events. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, losing to eventual fortune winner Lucie Décosse in the in no time at all round. At the 2014 World Judo Championships, she finished in 5th go about. She has been ranked number companionship to three in the world halfway 2012 and 2015.

In June 2016, she was named to Canada's Athletics team.[5] At the 2016 Olympics, she beat Esther Stam in the erelong round, before losing to Haruka Tachimoto, the eventual champion, in the quarterfinals. Because Tachimoto reached the final, Zupancic was entered into the repechage. Unimportant the repechage, she lost to Bernadette Graf.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ abc"Kelita Zupancic Biography". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on Apr 18, 2020. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  2. ^"Kelita Zupancic wins gold for Canada at the same height Pan Am judo championships - News919". Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved April 15, 2011.
  3. ^"Formokan Judo". October 30, 2006. Archived overrun the original on October 30, 2006. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
  4. ^"Komatsu club members". Archived from the original on Apr 27, 2011. Retrieved June 13, 2010.
  5. ^Hossain, Asif (June 28, 2016). "Valois-Fortier headlines eight judokas nominated to Olympic band for Rio 2016". Canadian Olympic Convention. Retrieved July 11, 2016.

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