Team Mall - Gemma Gibbons

 

Gemma Gibbons

Judo star Gemma Gibbons, who recently competed in the British University Championships where she took gold, is now hoping to go for gold at the London Olympics in 2012.

First introduced to the sport at the Metro Judo Club, Blackheath, aged six, Gemma has gone on to compete at the highest level in her age group. She clinched fifth place at the Junior Europeans in Croatia, and is one of around 100 young sportspeople to benefit from the government's 2012 Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS), which aims to help the medalists of the future to fulfill their potential.

Gemma is representing the following Malls, click to visit their What's On pages: Bristol; Uxbridge; Edgware; Wood Green; Walthamstow; Ilford; Romford; Epsom and Bexleyheath

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Gemma's Blog...

March 08

The last few months have been spent building up my training programme to try and build upon my cardiovascular fitness and my strength endurance.March was spent continuing with this training progressing through to the BUSA championships which were held in Sheffield. Here I managed to come away winning gold in both the individual event held on the Saturday and the team event held on the Sunday.... Read more >

Recent Results

Gemma, as part of the University of Bath Judo team, was part of the wining team at the recent BUSA Judo Championships in Wolverhampton. Gemma helped her team to victory by taking a gold medal in her individual event. Other recent results are:

 

2007 British University Championships, Gold
2007 British Senior International Open, 5th
2006 European U23 Championships, Moscow, 7th
2006 British Woman's Senior Closed, Sheffield, Bronze
2006 World University Championships, Seoul, 5th
2006 Senior Woman's  Kings Cup, Denmark, Silver
2006 Junior World Cup, France, 7th
2006 Senior Italy B tournament, Bronze
2006 Junior World Cup, Estonia, Gold
2006 Elite Performance Junior Tirals, Gold
2005 Junior British Open Championships, Gold
2005 Junior British Closed Championships, Gold

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Which Team Mall athlete will perform the best in Beijing?

Chris Cook (swimming)
Gail Emms (badminton)
Gemma Gibbons (judo)
Darius Knight (table tennis)
Neil Stirton (rifle shooting)
Pippa Wilson (sailing)
Peter Reed (rowing)
Shelly Woods (wheelchair racing)

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