Ilse Heylen
Ilse Heylen (born 21 March 1977, Edegem) is a Belgian judoka. She won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.[1]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Heylen competed in the Half-lightweight (52 kg). She won her first two bouts against Madagascar's Naina Ravaoarisoa and Kazakhstan's Sholpan Kaliyeva before losing to Cuba's Amarilis Savón, the eventual bronze medal winner, she advanced to the repechage however. She won all of her repechage bouts over Sanna Askelöf of Sweden and Georgina Singleton of Great Britain before winning her bronze medal bout over France's Annabelle Euranie.
Heylen also became the 2005 European Champion (in Rotterdam) and won a silver medal in 2004 and a bronze medal at the 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010 European Championships.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
Heylen also competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.[8] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she reached the semi-finals, where she was defeated by the eventual silver medalist, Yanet Bermoy.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Olympic medalist". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.[dead link ]
- ^ "2005 European Judo Championships". judoinside.com. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ "2004 European Judo Championships". judoinside.com. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ "2006 European Judo Championships". judoinside.com. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ "2007 European Judo Championships". judoinside.com. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ "2009 European Judo Championships". judoinside.com. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ "2010 European Judo Championships". judoinside.com. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ilse Heylen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ "London 2012 - Women's -52 kg Judo". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 24 September 2014.[dead link ]
External links
[edit]Media related to Ilse Heylen at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Ilse Heylen at the International Judo Federation
- Ilse Heylen at JudoInside.com
- Ilse Heylen at AllJudo.net (in French)
- Ilse Heylen at Olympics.com
- Ilse Heylen at Olympedia
- Ilse Heylen at The-Sports.org
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Belgian female judoka
- Olympic judoka for Belgium
- Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Belgium
- Olympic medalists in judo
- People from Edegem
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Summer World University Games medalists in judo
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Belgium
- European Games competitors for Belgium
- Judoka at the 2015 European Games
- Medalists at the 1999 Summer Universiade
- Sportspeople from Antwerp Province
- European judo biography stubs
- Belgian martial arts biography stubs