Ilse Heylen

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Ilse Heylen (born 21 March 1977 in Edegem) is a Belgian judoka. She won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.[1]

Born (1977-03-21) 21 March 1977 (age 49)
OccupationJudoka
CountryBelgium
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Ilse Heylen
Personal information
Born (1977-03-21) 21 March 1977 (age 49)
OccupationJudoka
Websitewww.ilseheylen.be Edit this at Wikidata
Sport
CountryBelgium
SportJudo
Weight class52 kg
Achievements and titles
Olympic Games3rd place, bronze medalist(s) (2004)
World Champ.9th (2007)
European Champ.‹See Tfd›Gold (2005)
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing  Belgium
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place2004 Athens52 kg
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2005 Rotterdam52 kg
Silver medal – second place2004 Bucharest52 kg
Bronze medal – third place2006 Tampere52 kg
Bronze medal – third place2007 Belgrade52 kg
Bronze medal – third place2009 Tbilisi52 kg
Bronze medal – third place2010 Vienna52 kg
World Masters
Bronze medal – third place2012 Almaty52 kg
IJF Grand Slam
Silver medal – second place2012 Moscow52 kg
Bronze medal – third place2009 Rio de Janeiro52 kg
Bronze medal – third place2010 Paris52 kg
Bronze medal – third place2012 Rio de Janeiro52 kg
IJF Grand Prix
Gold medal – first place2013 Almaty52 kg
Gold medal – first place2013 Tashkent52 kg
Silver medal – second place2009 Abu Dhabi52 kg
Silver medal – second place2013 Rijeka52 kg
Silver medal – second place2015 Tbilisi52 kg
Silver medal – second place2015 Samsun52 kg
Silver medal – second place2016 Havana52 kg
Bronze medal – third place2010 Düsseldorf52 kg
Bronze medal – third place2012 Abu Dhabi52 kg
Bronze medal – third place2012 Qingdao52 kg
Bronze medal – third place2013 Miami52 kg
Summer Universiade
Bronze medal – third place1999 Palma de Mallorca48 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF325
JudoInside.com167
Updated on 31 May 2023
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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]

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