Jessica Malone

Jessica Malone
Personal information
Full name Jessica Malone
Nationality  Australia
Born (1986-11-27) 27 November 1986
Newcastle, New South Wales,
Australia
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 95 kg (209 lb)
Sport
Sport Judo
Event(s) +78 kg
Club Budokan Judo Club

Jessica Malone (born November 27, 1986 in Newcastle, New South Wales) is an Australian judoka, who competed in the women's heavyweight category.[1] She held five Australian titles in her own division, picked up dozens medals in her career, including a single gold in her division from the 2004 Oceania Championships in Noumea, New Caledonia, and represented her nation Australia, as a 17-year-old teen, at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[2] Malone also trained throughout her sporting career for Budokan Judo Club in Sydney.

Malone qualified for the Australian squad, as a 17-year-old teen, in the women's heavyweight class (+78 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by topping the field of judoka and receiving a berth from the Oceania Championships in Noumea, New Caledonia.[2][3] Suffering a shoulder injury only 10 days out from competition, she lost her opening match to Japanese judoka and eventual Olympic champion Maki Tsukada, who quickly pinned and subdued her on the tatami with a kosoto gake (small outer hook) at an immediate span of twenty-six seconds. In the repechage, Malone gave herself an Olympic medal chance, but fell short in a fast-pacing, ippon defeat with a similar approach from her previous match to Ukraine's Maryna Prokofyeva six seconds into their bout.[4][5]

Jessica now coaches a local club in her home town of Newcastle at a local PCYC.

References

  1. ↑ "Jessica Malone". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
  2. 1 2 Valentine, Renee (16 June 2004). "Teen Judo Star Bound For Athens". Newcastle Herald (Judo Federation of Australia). Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Athens judo team named". ABC News Australia. 11 June 2004. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  4. ↑ "Judo: Women's Heavyweight (+78kg/+172 lbs) Repechage Round 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. ↑ "Japonesa vence todas por ippon e conquista o ouro" [The Japanese have dominated all by ippon and claimed the gold] (in Portuguese). Universo Online. 20 August 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2014.

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