Rachel Wilding

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Rachel Wilding
Personal information
NationalityBritish (English)
Born (1976-07-18) 18 July 1976 (age 46)
Woking, Surrey, England
Occupation Judoka
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Sport
Country Great Britain
Sport Judo
Weight class –70 kg, –78 kg
ClubCamberley Judo Club
Achievements and titles
World Champ. 7th (2005)
European Champ. Silver medal europe.svg(2005)
Olympic Games 9th (2004)
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
European Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2005 Rotterdam –78 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF 53021
JudoInside.com 6577
Updated on 17 November 2022.

Rachel Wilding (born 18 July 1976 in Woking, Surrey, England) is an English judoka, who competed in the women's half-heavyweight category. [1] She picked up a total of thirty-one medals in her career, and represented Great Britain in the 78-kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Throughout most of her sporting career, Wilding trained for the Camberley Judo Club in Camberley under her personal coach and sensei Mark Earle. [2] [3]

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Judo career

Wilding was a three times champion of Great Britain, winning the middleweight division at the British Judo Championships in 2000 and the half-heavyweight title in 2002 and 2004. [4]

Wilding qualified for Team GB in the women's half-heavyweight class (78 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by securing a place and a victory from the British judo trials in Wolverhampton. [5] [6] She opened her prelim match by throwing Spain's Esther San Miguel into the tatami on a brilliant ippon and an ura nage (rear throw) with only 25 seconds left in the clock, before falling short to Ukraine's Anastasiia Matrosova in the quarterfinals with a more robust tactic. [7] Wilding gave herself a chance for an Olympic medal in the repechage round, but wasted her charm with a tough defeat from South Korea's Lee So-yeon. [8] [9]

At the 2005 European Judo Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Wilding recorded her career best to pick up a silver medal in the 78-kg division, losing out to neighboring France's Céline Lebrun in the final. [10] [11]

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