Yuri Alvear
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| Women's judo | ||
Representing  Colombia
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| Olympic Games | ||
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2016 Rio de Janeiro | –70 kg |
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2012 London | –70 kg |
| World Championships | ||
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2009 Rotterdam | –70 kg |
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2013 Rio de Janeiro | –70 kg |
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2014 Chelyabinsk | –70 kg |
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2015 Astana | –70 kg |
| Pan American Games | ||
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2011 Guadalajara | –70 kg |
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2007 Rio de Janeiro | –70 kg |
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2015 Toronto | –70 kg |
| Pan American Championships | ||
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2007 Montreal | –70 kg |
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2009 Buenos Aires | –70 kg |
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2014 Guayaquil | –70 kg |
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2016 Havana | –70 kg |
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2015 Edmonton | –70 kg |
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2008 Miami | –70 kg |
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2011 Guadalajara | –70 kg |
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2012 Montreal | –70 kg |
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2013 San José | –70 kg |
Yuri Alvear Orejuela (born 29 March 1986 in Jamundí, Valle del Cauca) is a Colombian female judoka, three times World Champion in her division.
Yuri was born in Jamundí which is a suburb of the third largest city in Colombia, Cali. Her father Arnuy is a builder and mother Miryam is a housewife. She has also a brother Harvy.
From youth, she was very talented in all kind of sports that she participated in like water polo, volleyball, handball, athletics. When she was 14 Ruperto Guaúña, a judo trainer of Litecom school, was looking for a girls for his judo team. That's how Yuri became a judoka.
Yuri began judo late, but she already was already in good physical condition from previous sport so she just needed to learn technical aspects of judo.
She is a very good friend with other top Colombian judoka Anny Cortez.
Two weeks before the 2010 Pan American Judo Championships after training she felt some pain in her left knee. She went to doctor and he found that she has torn ACL.
Alvear won the bronze medal of the under 57 kg division of the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games.
In 2008 she participated Olympic Games in Beijing where she placed 7th. She lost to Anaysi Hernández of Cuba in the main draw and then lost a very close match against Leire Iglesias from Spain in the repechage losing her chance to fight for a medal.
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