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Sally Conway (born 1 February 1987) is a Scottish retired judoka who competed for Team GB in the 2012 and the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's 70 kg judo event.[3][4] Conway won a bronze medal in the 2016 Olympics. She competed for Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she won a bronze medal at the at women's 70 kg judo event. As of 2024, Conway coaches Sweden's national judo team.[2]
Biography
[edit]Conway was born in Bristol in 1987.[5] Conway took up judo at the age of ten in her home town of Bristol.[6] She trains at Judo Scotland's Edinburgh headquarters in Ratho, having previously trained at Bisham Abbey.[6][7][8]
She competed for Scotland in the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she won a bronze medal in the −70 kg division.[9] At the 2012 Summer Olympics she beat Chad's Carine Ngarlemdana with an ippon score after scoring with a wazaari.[10] She then lost to second seed Edith Bosch, to a wazari after being penalised with a shido for backing off.[10]
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.[6] She was the only Scot to be part of the British team sent to the 2016 Judo World Championships.[7] Conway was selected for the 2016 European Championships.[11]
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.[5][12]
In May 2019, Conway was selected to compete at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus.[13]
In August, Conway competed at the 2019 World Judo Championships held in Tokyo, Japan. She won her first three fight, losing to the eventual world champion Marie Eve Gahie of France, in the semi-final. She beat Austrian Michaela Polleres in the bronze medal fight, earning her first senior medal at the World Championships.[14]
In February 2021 Conway announced her retirement from judo.[15] She was seven times champion of Great Britain, winning the middleweight division at the British Judo Championships in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.[16]
References
[edit]- ^ "IJF Dan Grades Awardees" (PDF). International Judo Federation. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
- ^ a b "Game on for Swedish coach Sally Conway". JudoInside.com. 15 July 2024. Archived from the original on 15 July 2024. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
- ^ "Sally Conway". www.london2012.com. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sally Conway". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- ^ a b "Rio Olympics 2016: Briton Sally Conway wins -70kg judo bronze". BBC Sport. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ a b c "Glasgow 2014 – Sally Conway Profile". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
- ^ a b Scotl, Jane Lewis BBC. "Judo World Championships: Sally Conway eyes Rio pointers". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
- ^ "Sally Conway". Teamgb.com. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ^ "Team Scotland celebrates more judo success with gold for Sarah Clark". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ^ a b "London 2012 Olympics: Winston Gordon and Sally Conway's hopes of ending British judo gloom dashed". Retrieved 11 July 2016.
- ^ "British Judo name 13-strong team for European Champs". Retrieved 11 July 2016.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Team GB squad announcement for the European Games". Team GB. 21 May 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
- ^ "World Championships Senior 2019 / IJF.org".
- ^ "Shock retirement of Olympic top judoka Sally Conway".
- ^ "British Judo Championship Results 2003 to present". British Judo. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
External links
[edit]- Sally Conway at the International Judo Federation
- Sally Conway at JudoInside.com
- Sally Conway at AllJudo.net (in French)
- Sally Conway at Olympics.com
- Sally Conway at Olympedia
- Sally Conway at The-Sports.org
- Sally Conway on Instagram
