Leire Iglesias
Personal information
Full nameLeire Iglesias Armiño
Nationality Spain
Born (1978-04-07) 7 April 1978
Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain
OccupationJudoka
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Sport
CountrySpain
SportJudo
Weight class‍–‍70 kg
ClubJudo Club Alicante
Achievements and titles
Olympic Games5th (2008)
World Champ.7th (2007)
European Champ.Silver (2008)
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing  Spain
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2008 Lisbon ‍–‍70 kg
World Juniors Championships
Silver medal – second place 1996 Porto ‍–‍66 kg
European Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Valladolid ‍–‍66 kg
Summer Universiade
Bronze medal – third place 1999 Palma de Mallorca ‍–‍70 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Jeju ‍–‍70 kg
Mediterranean Games
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Pescara ‍–‍70 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF1747
JudoInside.com626
Updated on 16 November 2022.

Leire Iglesias Armiño[lower-alpha 1] (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

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

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ "Judo: Champions tumble on day of shocks". Terra. 13 August 2008. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Women's Middleweight (70kg/154 lbs) Preliminaries". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "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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