BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRO-FRENCH " LUCIE DECOSSE " IS A RETIRED FEMALE FRENCH JUDOKA : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK GENIUS "

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Lucie Décosse

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Lucie Décosse

Lucie Décosse during the French medal winners' parade 2012 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Born	6 August 1981 (age 33)
Medal record[hide] Women's Judo Competitor for  France Olympic Games Gold 2012 London 70 kg Silver 2008 Beijing 63 kg World Championships Gold 2005 Cairo 63 kg Gold 2010 Tokyo 70 kg Gold 2011 Paris 70 kg Silver 2007 Rio de Janeiro 63 kg European Championships Gold 2002 Maribor 63 kg Gold 2007 Belgrade 63 kg Gold 2008 Lisbon 63 kg Gold 2009 Tbilisi 70 kg Silver 2006 Tampere 63 kg Bronze 2005 Rotterdam 63 kg Bronze 2011 Istanbul 70 kg

Lucie Décosse (born 6 August 1981 in Chaumont) is a retired female French judoka.

Career

Décosse competed in the half-middleweight (57–63 kg) category until 2008. Thereafter, she switched to the middleweight (63–70 kg) category. She was ranked number one in the world in both categories.

Décosse won a total of 13 medals (8 of them gold) at the Olympic Games, the World Judo Championships and the European Judo Championships. She won the most important medal of her career - the middleweight (63–70 kg) gold medal - at the 2012 Olympic Games.

Décosse retired from judo after losing her bronze medal match against South Korea's Kim Seong-Yeon at the 2013 World Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro.^[1]

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