Timna Nelson-Levy

Timna Nelson-Levy (Hebrew: תמנע נלסון-לוי; born 7 July 1994) is an Israeli judoka.[2] She competes in the under 57 kg weight category, and won a bronze medal in the 2016 European Judo Championships.[3][4][5] She competed for Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Timna Nelson-Levy
Personal information
Native nameתמנע נלסון-לוי‎
NationalityIsraeli
Born (1994-07-07) 7 July 1994
Jerusalem, Israel
OccupationJudoka
Sport
Country Israel
SportJudo
Weight class–57 kg
Rank     Black belt in Judo
Achievements and titles
World Champ.R16 (2018, 2019)
European Champ. (2022)
Olympic Games7th (2020)
Highest world ranking4th [1]
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing  Israel
Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo Mixed team
European Championships
2022 Sofia –57 kg
2016 Kazan –57 kg
IJF Grand Slam
2021 Tel Aviv –57 kg
2017 Baku –57 kg
2018 Abu Dhabi –57 kg
2020 Budapest –57 kg
2022 Tel Aviv –57 kg
2022 Antalya –57 kg
IJF Grand Prix
2018 Agadir –57 kg
2019 Tel Aviv –57 kg
2017 Antalya –57 kg
2017 Tashkent –57 kg
2018 Tbilisi –57 kg
2018 Cancún –57 kg
2019 Marrakesh –57 kg
2019 Montreal –57 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF14858
JudoInside.com85093
Updated on 29 April 2022.

Early life

Nelson-Levy was born to American Zionist parents Shmuel and Laura who immigrated to Israel in 1985, and resided in the capital city of Jerusalem.[6] Her denomination is Reform Judaism. Prior to Judo, her first sports as a child was Jujutsu and mixed martial arts.[7][6]

Career

On October 10, 2015, Nelson-Levy won her first significant medal in a senior competition when she won a bronze medal at the 'European Open Lisbon'.[8][9]

On April 21, 2016, she participated in the European senior championships for the first time and won a bronze medal.[3][4] She defeated Anna Borowska of Poland in the first round, Hedvig Karakas of Hungary in the round of 16 and lost to Nora Gjakova of Kosovo in the quarter finals. She went on to defeat Viola Waechter of Germany in the repechage and reached the bronze medal match where she defeated Helene Receveaux of France by ippon.[5]

She represented Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[10] Competing in the women's 57 kg weight category, Nelson-Levy stated at the round of 16, beating the Serbian 2020 European under-21 champion Marica Perišić after a more than 10 minutes long match.[11] In the quarter finals, she lost to Japanese 2018 World champion Tsukasa Yoshida. Next, Nelson-Levy faced Slovenian 2021 European championships silver medalist Kaja Kajzer, losing in golden score and finishing the competition in 7th place.[12][13][14][15]

Titles

Sources:[16][2]

YearTournamentPlaceRef.
2016 European Championships[3][4][5]
2017 Grand Slam Baku[17][18]
Grand Prix Antalya[19][20]
Grand Prix Tashkent[21][22]
2018 Grand Prix Agadir[23][24]
Grand Prix Tbilisi[25][26]
Grand Prix Cancún[27][28]
Grand Slam Abu Dhabi[29][30]
2019 Grand Prix Tel Aviv[31][32]
Grand Prix Marrakesh[33][34][35]
Grand Prix Montreal[36][37]
2020 Grand Slam Hungary[38][39][40]
2021 Grand Slam Tel Aviv[41][42]
2022 Grand Slam Tel Aviv[43][44][45]
Grand Slam Antalya[46][47][48]
European Championships[49][50][51]

References
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  8. "2015 European Open Lisbon". JudoInside.com. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  9. Sinai, Allon (11 April 2018). "New wave of Israeli judokas set to make mark on the mat". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  10. "Israel's pursuit for Olympic judo gold". Olympics.com. 5 May 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
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