Laura Vargas Koch

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Laura Vargas Koch
Gedenktafel Mariendorfer Weg 70 (Neuko) Laura Vargas Koch.jpg
Personal information
NationalityGerman
Born (1990-06-29) 29 June 1990 (age 33)
Occupation Judoka
Website sites.google.com/view/lvargaskoch OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Sport
CountryFlag of Germany.svg  Germany
Sport Judo
Weight class –70 kg
Achievements and titles
Olympic Games Bronze medal.svg (2016)
World Champ. Silver medal world centered-2.svg (2013)
European Champ. Silver medal europe.svg (2014, 2015)
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro 70 kg
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2013 Rio de Janeiro 70 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Chelyabinsk Women's team
European Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Baku 70 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Baku Women's team
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Yekaterinburg Mixed team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Montpellier 70 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2013 Budapest 70 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2013 Budapest Women's team
IJF Grand Slam
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Abu Dhabi 70 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Abu Dhabi 70 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2013 Baku 70 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Paris 70 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2013 Paris 70 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2013 Moscow 70 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Tokyo 70 kg
IJF Grand Prix
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2013 Rijeka 70 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Samsun 70 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Havana 70 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Tashkent 70 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2013 Düsseldorf 70 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Jeju 70 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Budapest 70 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Tbilisi 70 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2012 Qingdao 70 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Astana 70 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Budapest 70 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Jeju 70 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Düsseldorf 70 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 The Hague 70 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Marrakesh 70 kg
European U23 Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Tyumen 70 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2010 Sarajevo 70 kg
Summer Universiade
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2011 Shenzhen 70 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF 2394
JudoInside.com 42565
Updated on 24 May 2023.

Laura Vargas Koch (born 29 June 1990) is a German former judoka and Olympic medalist [1] and computer scientist and applied mathematician. [2] She holds a professorship in combinatorial optimization as Bonn Junior Fellow in the Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics and Hausdorff Center for Mathematics at the University of Bonn. [3]

Vargas Koch competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the women's 70 kg division. She won a bronze medal by defeating María Bernabéu of Spain in the bronze medal match. [4] She retired in 2020 after a knee injury. [5]

She completed a Ph.D. in 2020 at RWTH Aachen University with the dissertation Competitive variants of discrete and continuous flows over time supervised by Britta Peis. [6] Her research concerns algorithmic game theory applied to problems including traffic flow and network routing. She took a professorship at the University of Bonn after postdoctoral research with Rico Zenklusen at ETH Zurich and with José Correa at the Center for Mathematical Modeling of the University of Chile. [7]

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References

  1. "Laura Vargas Koch". judoinside. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
  2. To verify the connection between these two identities, see e.g. "Award: Silver for Laura Vargas Koch at the Judo Grand Prix in Tiflis" from the noticeboard of the RWTH Aachen research group UnRAVeL – UNcertainty and Randomness in Algorithms, VErification and Logic, retrieved 2024-02-20
  3. "People". Bonn Mathematics. Retrieved 20 February 2024. "Bonn Junior Fellows". Hausdorff Center for Mathematics. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  4. "Rio 2016". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 31 August 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  5. Crowley, Jo (23 February 2020). "From Mats to Maths: Laura Vargas Koch Retires". IJF News. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  6. Laura Vargas Koch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. Koch, Laura Vargas. "About me" . Retrieved 20 February 2024.

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