Yarden Gerbi
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| Nationality | Israeli | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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July 8, 1989 Kfar Saba, Israel |
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| Residence | Netanya, Israel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | "yardengerbi.com". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Judo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | 63 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Women's 63 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Meitav Netanya | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Shany Hershko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| World finals | World Champion (2013) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National finals | Israeli Champion (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest world ranking | 1 (2013) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yarden Gerbi (Hebrew: ירדן ג'רבי, born July 8, 1989) is an Israeli judoka world champion. She won an Olympic bronze medal competing for Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in Women's 63 kg Judo.
She won the gold medal at the 2013 World Judo Championships in the category -63 kg (139 lbs.). She won the Israeli championship five times by the age of 24, and was a silver medalist in the 2009 Maccabiah Games.
Gerbi was born in Kfar Saba, Israel to a Jewish family. She was raised and also currently resides in Netanya, Israel. Her nicknames are Jordan, Gerb, and Denush. She attended the Open University of Israel, studying Economics and Management.
Gerbi, who began judo at age 6, trains with club Meditav Netanya. Shani Hershko, former coach of the Israeli women's national judo team, has been her trainer since childhood.
Gerbi twice won the Israeli judo championship. She won the silver medal in the 2012 European Judo Championships, and bronze in the 2013 European Judo Championships.
In 2007, she won the Israel Championships. In 2008, Gerbi won the Israel Championships and the Under-23 Israel Championships, and took third in the Under-20 category in the European Championships. In 2009, she won the Israel Championships and the Belo Horizonte World Cup, placed second in the 2009 Maccabiah Games, and took third place in the Qingdao Grand Prix.
In 2010, she came in second in the Grand Prix Qingdao and the Baku World Cup and the Birmingham World Cup, third in the Warsaw World Cup, and came in 7th place at the World Championships in Tokyo. In 2011, she won the Israeli Championships, came in second in the San Salvador World Cup and the Miami World Cup, third in the Moscow Grand Slam and the World Masters Baku, and fifth in the 2011 European Judo Championships. However she was eliminated in the second round of the 2011 world championship and did not qualify for Israel's 2012 Olympic team.
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