Gella Vandecaveye

Gella Vandecaveye (born 5 June 1973 in Kortrijk, Belgium) is a judoka from Belgium who competed at four Olympic Games.[1]

Gella Vandecaveye
Medal record
Women's Judo
Representing  Belgium
Olympic Games
1996 Atlanta -61 kg
2000 Sydney -63 kg
World Championships
1993 Hamilton -61 kg
2001 Munich -63 kg
1997 Paris -61 kg
1999 Birmingham -63 kg
1995 Chiba -61 kg
European Championships
1994 Gdańsk -61 kg
1996 The Hague -61 kg
1997 Ostend -61 kg
1998 Oviedo -63 kg
1999 Bratislava -63 kg
2000 Wrocław -63 kg
2001 Paris -63 kg
2003 Düsseldorf -63 kg
1995 Birmingham -61 kg
2002 Maribor -63 kg

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".[2]

Footnotes

  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Gella Vandecaveye Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  2. European Judo News, Winter 1999.

Sources

Sporting positions
Preceded by
Frauke Eickhoff
Keiko Maeda
World Judo champion (2)
1993
2001
Succeeded by
Jung Sung Sook
Daniela Krukower
Preceded by
European Judo champion - 61/63 kg (7)
1994
19962001
Succeeded by
Lucie Décosse
Awards
Preceded by
European Judoka of the Year
1994
19981999
2001
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Luc Van Lierde
Belgian Sports Personality of the Year
2000
Succeeded by
Jacques Rogge
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