Sally Conway

Sally Conway (born 1 February 1987) is a Scottish judoka who competed for Team GB in the 2012 and the 2016 Rio Olympics in the women's 70 kg judo event.[1] Conway won a bronze medal in the 2016 Olympics. She competed for Scotland at women's 70 kg judo event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she won a bronze medal.

Sally Conway
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (1987-02-01) 1 February 1987
Bristol, England
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
CountryGreat Britain
SportJudo
Event(s)–70 kg
Medal record
Representing  Scotland
Women's judo
Commonwealth Games
2014 Glasgow–70 kg
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro–70 kg
World Championships
2019 Tokyo–70 kg

Biography

Conway was born in Bristol in 1987.[2] Conway took up judo at the age of ten in her home town of Bristol.[3] She trains at Judo Scotland's Edinburgh headquarters in Ratho, having previously trained at Bisham Abbey.[3][4]

She competed for Scotland in the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she won a bronze medal in the −70 kg division.[5] At the 2012 Summer Olympics she beat Chad's Carine Ngarlemdana with an ippon score after scoring with a wazaari.[6] She then lost to second seed Edith Bosch, to a wazari after being penalised with a shido for backing off.[6]

In 2013, she won the Olympic Athlete of the Year from the British Olympic Association and Female Player of the Year at the British Judo Awards.[3] She was the only Scot to be part of the British team sent to the 2016 Judo World Championships.[4] Conway was selected for the 2016 European Championships.[7]

She competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 70 kg category, defeating Israel's Linda Bolder in the quarter-finals, and then defeating Austria's Bernadette Graf to win the bronze medal.[2][8]

In May 2019, Conway was selected to compete at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus.[9]

References
  1. "Sally Conway". www.london2012.com. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  2. "Rio Olympics 2016: Briton Sally Conway wins -70kg judo bronze". BBC Sport. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  3. "Glasgow 2014 – Sally Conway Profile". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  4. Scotl, Jane Lewis BBC. "Judo World Championships: Sally Conway eyes Rio pointers". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  5. "Team Scotland celebrates more judo success with gold for Sarah Clark". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  6. "London 2012 Olympics: Winston Gordon and Sally Conway's hopes of ending British judo gloom dashed". Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  7. "British Judo name 13-strong team for European Champs". Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  8. Live Olympics 2016 day five, live: Sally Conway storms to three emphatic victories by ippon at the judo and into the final four, The Daily Telegraph, 10 August 2016
  9. "Team GB squad announcement for the European Games". Team GB. 21 May 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.


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