Katarina Krišto
Croatian judoka (born 2002)
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Katarina Krišto (born 20 March 2002) is a Croatian judoka.[1] She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics where she reached the semi-final.
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| Born | 20 March 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Judoka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Croatia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Judo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| –63 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 5th (2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| R32 (2024, 2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5th (2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| JudoInside.com | 103664 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career
Krišto is a member of the Dalmacijacement judo club in Kaštel Sućurac, within the town of Kaštela in Dalmatia, Croatia. She has been coached consistently from a young age by Josip Barić, with their partnership being over ten years long by the time of the 2024 Olympic Games.[2]
She won a gold medal at the 2021 European Junior Judo Championships in 2021[3] She won a bronze medal at the 2021 World Judo Juniors Championships in Italy.[4]
In 2022, she had to overcome knee surgery but just two months later recorded a firth place at the World Junior Championships. Unfortunately, however, she suffered an elbow injury in the semi-finals of the championships, the rehabilitation from which took more than four months.[2]
In 2023, she triumphed at the 2023 Judo Grand Prix Dushanbe in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.[5] She won a bronze medal at the European Open in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2023.[3]
She had a fifth-place finish at the 2024 European Judo Championships in the women's 63 kg category, in Zagreb.[6] She won a silver at the 2024 Judo Grand Slam Paris in February 2024.[7] She won a bronze medal at the 2024 Judo Grand Slam Antalya.[8] She then won gold at 2024 Judo Grand Slam Astana.[9]
She competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Women's 63 kg.[10] She defeated Miku Takaichi on the way to reaching the semi-finals.[11] She was initially awarded the win in her bronze medal match against Laura Fazliu but her winning waza-ari score was overturned by the judges for a gripping infringement and a third shido gave the result in favour of Fazliu.[12]
