Linda Bolder
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July 3, 1988 Velserbroek, the Netherlands |
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 Israel
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| Sport | Judo | ||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Women's -70 kg | ||||||||||||
| Coached by | Ben Rietdijk and Shany Hershko | ||||||||||||
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Linda Bolder (Hebrew: לינדה בולדר, born July 3, 1988, in Velserbroek, the Netherlands) is a Dutch-born Israeli Olympic judoka.
A three-time European age-group judo champion as a junior, two-time Dutch senior women's champion, and silver medalist in the 2013 European Judo Championships, she emigrated to Israel with her Jewish husband in January 2015. Bolder represented Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women’s under-70kg competition, making it to the quarter-finals.
Bolder started taking judo classes at the age of four.
In 2004, Bolder won both the Under-17 Dutch Championship and the Under-20 Dutch Championship in the U63 weight class. She repeated as Under-20 Dutch Champion in 2006 and 2007, but in the U70 weight class. In 2009 and 2012 she won the senior Dutch Championship in the U70 weight class.
In 2004 she won the Under-17 European Cadet Championship, in 2007 Bolder won the Under-20 European U20 Championship, and in 2008 she won the Under-23 European Championship.
In 2005 Bolder won the Kent International Crystal Palace in the U70 weight class, in 2010 she won the IJF World Cup Cairo and the Grand Prix Qingdao in the U70 weight class, and in 2012 she won the World Cup Rome and the Grand Slam Tokyo in the U70 weight class and the Swiss Judo Open Geneve in the U78 weight class.
Bolder won the silver medal in the 2013 European Judo Championships, representing the Netherlands.
In 2014 she won the Grand Slam Paris in the U70 weight class. In February 2014 Bolder was injured in Düsseldorf, Germany, and had knee ligament reconstruction surgery that kept her from competing for the remainder of the year.
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