Timna Nelson-Levy

תמנע נלסון-לוי‎NationalityIsraeliBorn (1994-07-07) 7 July 1994 (age 29)
Jerusalem, IsraelOccupationJudokaSportCountry IsraelSportJudoWeight class‍–‍57 kgRank     4th dan black belt^[1]Achievements and titlesOlympic Games7th (2020)World Champ.5th (2022)European Champ. (2022)Highest world ranking1^st[2][3]Profile at external databasesIJF14858JudoInside.com85093 Updated on 25 April 2024.

Timna Nelson-Levy (Hebrew: תמנע נלסון-לוי; born 7 July 1994) is an Israeli judoka.^[4] She competes in the under 57 kg weight category, and won a bronze medal in the 2016 European Judo Championships.^[5][6][7] She competed for Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Early life

Nelson-Levy was born to Zionist American parents Shmuel and Laura who immigrated to Israel in 1985, several years prior to her birth, and resided in the capital city of Jerusalem, Israel, where she was born.^[8] Before Judo in her early teenage years, her first sports as a child were Jujutsu and mixed martial arts.^[9][8]

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'.^[10][11]

On April 21, 2016, she participated in the European senior championships for the first time and won a bronze medal.^[5][6] 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.^[7]

She represented Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[12] 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.^[13] 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.^{[14][15][16][17]}

Titles

Sources:^[18][4]

Year	Tournament	Place	Ref.
2016	European Championships		[5][6][7]
2017	Grand Slam Baku		[19][20]
	Grand Prix Antalya		[21][22]
	Grand Prix Tashkent		[23][24]
2018	Grand Prix Agadir		[25][26]
	Grand Prix Tbilisi		[27][28]
	Grand Prix Cancún		[29][30]
	Grand Slam Abu Dhabi		[31][32]
2019	Grand Prix Tel Aviv		[33][34]
	Grand Prix Marrakesh		[35][36][37]
	Grand Prix Montreal		[38][39]
2020	Grand Slam Hungary		[40][41][42]
2021	Grand Slam Tel Aviv		[43][44]
2022	Grand Slam Tel Aviv		[45][46][47]
	Grand Slam Antalya		[48][49][50]
	European Championships		[51][52][53]
	Grand Slam Ulaanbaatar		[54][55][56]
	Grand Slam Budapest		[57][58][59]
2023	Grand Slam Tel Aviv		[60][61][62]

See also

• List of Jews in Sports #Judo
• List of Israelis
• Sports in Israel

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