Sharon Rendle
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| Full name | Sharon Susan Rendle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1966年06月18日) 18 June 1966 (age 58) Kingston upon Hull, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Judoka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Judo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | –52 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic Games | Gold (1988) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Champ. | Gold (1987, 1989) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| European Champ. | Gold (1990, 1996) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commonwealth Games | Gold (1990) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sharon Susan Rendle MBE (born 18 June 1966 in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire) is a female retired judoka from the United Kingdom.[1]
Early life
[edit ]In the early 1980s she trained twice a week at Grimsby Judo club. 23 year old Ann Lucitt, from the Grimsby club, won silver at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.[2]
In January 1988 the minibus of Grimsby College was stolen in London, at an event, and much of the belongings were lost.[3]
She is only 5 feet tall. She lived with Ann Lucitt on Hawthorne Avenue in New Waltham from the mid-1980s, with coach Jennie and Terry Alltoft.[4]
Judo career
[edit ]Rendle competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992, when she won a bronze medal in the women's featherweight division (–52 kg). She was a multiple medal winner at the World Championships including winning gold at both the 1987 and the 1989 World Championships, also in the women's featherweight division (–52 kg).
Rendle also won a gold medal in the –52 kg division at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where women's judo was held as a demonstration sport. She also represented England at the 1990 Commonwealth Games and won a gold medal in the –52 kg half-lightweight category, at the judo event in Auckland, New Zealand.[5] [6]
In 1986, Rendle won the gold medal in the –52 kg weight category at the judo demonstration sport event as part of the 1986 Commonwealth Games.[7] In addition to her international success she was champion of Great Britain on four occasions, winning the featherweight division at the British Judo Championships in 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1991.[8]
In the late 1990s she became the Australian national coach.[9]
References
[edit ]- ^ "Sharon Rendle profile". Judo Inside. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Tuesday 29 July 1986, page 3
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Monday 25 January 1988, page 2
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Wednesday 23 July 1986, page 16
- ^ "1990 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games Edinburgh - Event". Judo Inside. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "British Championships - Event results". Judo Inside. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Tuesday 19 January 1999, page 32
External links
[edit ]- Sharon Rendle at the International Judo Federation Edit on Wikidata
- Sharon Rendle at JudoInside.comEdit on Wikidata
- Sharon Rendle at AllJudo.net (in French)Edit on Wikidata
- Sharon Rendle at Olympics.com Edit on Wikidata
- Sharon Rendle at Team GB Edit on Wikidata
- Sharon Rendle at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Sharon Rendle at The-Sports.org Edit this at Wikidata
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Kingston upon Hull
- British female judoka
- Judoka at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Judoka trainers
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in judo
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Grimsby
- Judoka at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in judo
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games