Naina Ravaoarisoa

Naina Ravaoarisoa
Personal information
Full name Naina Cécilia Ravaoarisoa
Nationality  Madagascar
Born (1976-07-29) 29 July 1976
Antananarivo, Madagascar
Height 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight 52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport Judo
Event(s) 52 kg
Medal record
Women's judo
Competitor for  Madagascar
All-Africa Games
1999 Johannesburg 52 kg

Naina Cécilia Ravaoarisoa (born July 29, 1976 in Antananarivo) is a Malagasy judoka who competed in the women's half-lightweight category.[1] She picked up a total of six medals in her career, including a bronze from the 1999 All-Africa Games in Johannesburg, South Africa, and represented her nation Madagascar in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004).[2]

Ravaoarisoa made her official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's half-lightweight class (52 kg). She lost her opening match to Chinese Taipei's Shih Pei-chun, who successfully scored an ippon victory and crippled her in a scarf hold (kesa gatame) on the tatami with only ninety seconds remaining in the five-minute bout.[3][4]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Ravaoarisoa qualified as a lone judoka for her second Malagasy squad in the women's half-lightweight class (52 kg), by placing second and granting a berth from the African Championships in Tunis, Tunisia.[2][5] Like her previous Olympics, Ravaoarisoa denied her chance to edge past the opening round and to compete in the repechage, after crashing out early in a defeat to Belgian judoka and eventual bronze medalist Ilse Heylen by a waza-ari awasete ippon point and a powerful deashi harai throw (advanced foot sweep) just thirty-four seconds into their match.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Naina Ravaoarisoa". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Madagascar: Judo - Naina Cécilia : merci à ceux qui ont cru en moi !" [Madagascar: Judo – Naina Cecilia: "Thank you to those who believed in me!"]. Madagasikara (in French) (AllAfrica.com). 27 May 2004. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Judo – Women's Half-Lightweight (52kg)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 110–111. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "Africa: Boxing, Judo And Table Tennis Round-up". AllAfrica.com. 18 September 2000. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "Madagascar: Judo / Championnats d'Afrique : Naina Cécilia vice-championne d'Afrique 2004 !" [Madagascar: African Judo Championships: Naina Cecilia is the runner-up]. Madagasikara (in French) (AllAfrica.com). 11 May 2004. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Judo: Women's Half-Lightweight (52kg/115 lbs) Round of 32". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "Heylen moet voorbij wereldkampioene Savon" [Heylen must get past world champion Savon] (in Dutch). Het Nieuwsblad. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 12 December 2014.

External links


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, May 31, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.