Lucy Renshall (born 11 December 1995) is a British judoka, [1] [2] [3] who competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. [4]
Lucy Renshall (born 11 December 1995) is a British judoka, [1] [2] [3] who competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. [4]
Renshall is from Eccleston, St Helens. At age 8, she joined SKK Judo Club in Earlestown. She later trained at the British Judo Centre in Walsall [5] and studied at the University of Wolverhampton. [6]
Renshall is a four times champion of Great Britain, winning the half-middleweight division at the British Judo Championships in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2021. [7]
In 2020, Renshall was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where she competed in the women's 63 kg category.
Renshall is the 2021 Judo Grand Slam Antalya champion in the –63 kg class. [8] She also won the gold medal in her event at the 2021 Judo Grand Slam Baku held in Baku, Azerbaijan. [9] She repeated this at the 2021 Judo Grand Slam Abu Dhabi held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. [10]
At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Renshall defeated Australian judoka Katharina Haecker via golden score in the first round but lost her next contest by the same method to Lubjana Piovesana, who until three years earlier had been her Great Britain teammate before switching to represent Austria. [11] [12]
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