Idalys Ortiz Bocourt (born 27 September 1989) is a Cuban judoka.[4] She competed in the over 78 kg division at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics and won a medal on each occasion. She won the silver medal in the women's +78 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[5][6]

Idalys Ortiz

Ortiz at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Nationality	Cuban
Born	(1989-09-27) 27 September 1989 (age 33) Pinar del Río, Cuba[1][2]
Occupation	Judoka
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)[3]
Sport
Country	Cuba
Sport	Judo
Weight class	+78 kg
Achievements and titles
World Champ.	(2013, 2014)
Pan American Champ.	(2008 – 2019)
Olympic Games	(2012)
Medal record Women's judo Representing  Cuba Olympic Games 2012 London +78 kg 2016 Rio de Janeiro +78 kg 2020 Tokyo +78 kg 2008 Beijing +78 kg World Championships 2013 Rio de Janeiro +78 kg 2014 Chelyabinsk +78 kg 2018 Baku +78 kg 2019 Tokyo +78 kg 2009 Rotterdam +78 kg 2010 Tokyo +78 kg 2015 Astana +78 kg 2017 Marrakesh Open Pan American Games 2011 Guadalajara +78 kg 2015 Toronto +78 kg 2019 Lima +78 kg Pan American Championships 2007 Montreal Open 2008 Miami +78 kg 2009 Buenos Aires +78 kg 2009 Buenos Aires Open 2010 San Salvador +78 kg 2010 San Salvador Open 2011 Guadalajara +78 kg 2012 Montreal +78 kg 2013 San José +78 kg 2014 Guayaquil +78 kg 2015 Edmonton +78 kg 2016 Havana +78 kg 2018 San José +78 kg 2019 Lima +78 kg World Masters 2016 Guadalajara +78 kg 2017 Saint Petersburg +78 kg 2018 Guangzhou +78 kg 2013 Tyumen +78 kg IJF Grand Slam 2018 Osaka +78 kg 2019 Paris +78 kg 2019 Düsseldorf +78 kg 2009 Paris +78 kg 2010 Tokyo +78 kg 2012 Tokyo +78 kg 2013 Paris +78 kg 2015 Tokyo +78 kg 2019 Osaka +78 kg 2022 Budapest +78 kg 2010 Paris +78 kg 2010 Rio de Janeiro +78 kg 2011 Paris +78 kg 2012 Paris +78 kg 2013 Tokyo +78 kg 2014 Paris +78 kg 2020 Düsseldorf +78 kg IJF Grand Prix 2016 Havana +78 kg 2016 Almaty +78 kg 2016 Ulaanbaatar +78 kg 2018 Budapest +78 kg 2018 Cancún +78 kg 2019 Hohhot +78 kg 2012 Düsseldorf +78 kg 2013 Miami +78 kg 2015 Budapest +78 kg 2019 Budapest +78 kg Summer Universiade 2013 Kazan Open 2013 Kazan +78 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF	951
JudoInside.com	40374
Updated on 10 July 2022.

Career

Ortiz took up judo aged 10, and was included in the national team at 15.[2][7] At the age of 18, she became the youngest Olympic medalist in the heavyweight category, winning a bronze medal in 2008. In 2013 and 2016, she was named Cuban Athlete of the Year. [8]

Beijing Olympics

In her first match at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, she stood against a big (170 lb) Egyptian judoka Samah Ramadan. Ramadan stayed and waited for an opportunity to use her, possibly only, technique of immobilizing her opponent by lying on top. During the match, Ortiz tried many techniques for ippon but none were successful, except for the last move just a few seconds before the end of the match, when Samah Ramadan was already tired.

In her second match in Beijing, Ortiz went against Janelle Shepherd from Australia. The match had a good tempo and ended quickly with Ortiz making an ippon (an okuri-eri-jime). In the third match, the semifinals, she went against later Olympic champion and controversial judoka Tong Wen from China. This was a close match full of action and could have gone either way. However, Wen won the match as one of Ortiz's techniques was counted as yuko. Ortiz won the bronze medal in her match against Dorjgotovyn Tserenkhand from Mongolia, winning with a nice ippon (O-goshi).

2012 Summer Olympics

At the 2012 Olympics, Ortiz won the gold medal. She beat Adysângela Moniz with a tsuri-goshi in her first match.[9] She then beat Yelena Ivashchenko before avenging her 2008 defeat by Tong Wen, beating her with a te-guruma.[9] She then beat Mika Sugimoto in the final.[9] She was the first non-Asian winner of the heavyweight category, and the first Cuban judo gold medalist in 12 years.[7][2]

At the 2015 Pan American Championships she beat Vanessa Zambotti in the final, having beaten Nina Cutro-Kelly in the semifinals.[10] It was one of 3 gold medals for Cuba.[10]

2016 Summer Olympics

At the 2016 Olympics, Ortiz completed her medal collection, winning a silver medal.[9] She beat Kseniya Chibisova with a tawara-gaeshi, then Kim Min-Jeong with a yoko-shiho-gatame.[9] In the semifinal she beat Kanae Yamabe with a uki-goshi before losing the final to Émilie Andéol.[9] She finished the season ranked world number one, having won 5 IJF events along with her Olympic silver.[11][12]

She won the bronze medal in the 2017 World Openweight Championships, beating Romane Dicko with a shime-waza.[13]

In 2018, she won her first IJF title since 2016.[14] She was also part of the Cuba team that won 5 gold medals at the 2018 Pan American Championships.[15]

Ortiz credits her success to hard training, 7 hours a day, and a regime that involves training against men, because of the few women in her weight category.[7]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Idalys Ortiz.

• Idalys Ortiz at the International Judo Federation
• Idalys Ortiz at JudoInside.com
• Idalys Ortiz at Olympedia
• Idalis Ortiz on official Cuban web encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)

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