Yuri Alvear Orejuela (born 29 March 1986) is a Colombian judoka, three times World Champion in her division.[1][2]

Yuri Alvear

Personal information
Nationality	Colombian
Born	(1986-03-29) 29 March 1986 (age 36) Jamundí, Colombia
Occupation	Judoka
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Sport
Country	Colombia
Sport	Judo
Weight class	–70 kg
Achievements and titles
World Champ.	(2009, 2013, 2014)
Pan American Champ.	(2007, 2009, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018)
Olympic Games	(2016)
Medal record Women's judo Representing  Colombia Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro –70 kg 2012 London –70 kg World Championships 2009 Rotterdam –70 kg 2013 Rio de Janeiro –70 kg 2014 Chelyabinsk –70 kg 2015 Astana –70 kg 2017 Budapest –70 kg 2018 Baku –70 kg Pan American Games 2011 Guadalajara –70 kg 2019 Lima –70 kg 2007 Rio de Janeiro –70 kg 2015 Toronto –70 kg Pan American Championships 2007 Montreal –70 kg 2009 Buenos Aires –70 kg 2014 Guayaquil –70 kg 2016 Havana –70 kg 2017 Panama City –70 kg 2018 San José –70 kg 2015 Edmonton –70 kg 2008 Miami –70 kg 2011 Guadalajara –70 kg 2012 Montreal –70 kg 2013 San José –70 kg World Masters 2015 Rabat –70 kg 2018 Guangzhou –70 kg 2016 Guadalajara –70 kg IJF Grand Slam 2017 Baku –70 kg 2019 Brasilia –70 kg 2011 Rio de Janeiro –70 kg 2009 Rio de Janeiro –70 kg 2013 Tokyo –70 kg IJF Grand Prix 2015 Samsun –70 kg 2011 Düsseldorf –70 kg 2011 Amsterdam –70 kg 2016 Düsseldorf –70 kg South American Games 2010 Medellín –70 kg 2010 Medellín Women's team 2014 Santiago –70 kg 2018 Cochabamba –70 kg 2006 Buenos Aires –63 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF	738
JudoInside.com	43732
Updated on 24 October 2022.

Early life

Yuri was born in Jamundí which is a suburb of Cali, the third largest city in Colombia. Her father Arnuy is a builder and mother Miryam is a housewife.^{[citation needed]} She also has a brother, Harvy.

From youth, she was very talented in all kind of sports, she participated in water polo, volleyball, handball, athletics.^{[citation needed]} When she was 14 Ruperto Guaúña, a judo trainer of Litecom school, was looking for girls for his judo team.[3] That's how Yuri became a judoka.^{[citation needed]}

Yuri began judo late, but she already was already in good physical condition from previous sport so she just needed to learn technical aspects of judo.^{[citation needed]}

She is a very good friend with other top Colombian judoka Anny Cortez.[4] She is also her sparring partner.

Judo career

Alvear won a bronze medal in the under 57 kg division of the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games.[5]

In 2008, she participated in the Olympic Games in Beijing where she placed 7th. She lost to Anaysi Hernández of Cuba in the main draw and then lost a very close match against Leire Iglesias from Spain in the repechage losing her chance to fight for a medal.^{[citation needed]}[6]

In 2009, she won the World Championships in Rotterdam.[7] In the final she gained victory over Anett Mészáros from Hungary and became the third South American judoka to win the title, following Natasha Hernández (of Venezuela) in 1984 and Daniela Krukower (of Argentina) in 2003.[8][9][10]

Two weeks before the 2010 Pan American Judo Championships, after training she felt some pain in her left knee. She went to doctor and he found that she had a torn ACL.[11]

In 2012, she won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in London, beating Chen Fei of China.[12] This was the first ever Olympic medal for Colombia in Judo.[13]

In 2016, she returned to the Olympic games in Rio and won a silver medal, becoming the 5th Colombian athlete to win two Olympic medals.

Achievements

All results referenced in her JudoInside profile.[14]

References

External links

• Yuri Alvear at the International Judo Federation
• Yuri Alvear at JudoInside.com
• Yuri Alvear at Olympics.com
• Yuri Alvear at Olympedia
• Worldjudo2014.ru

Olympic Games
Preceded by Mariana Pajón	Flagbearer for  Colombia Rio de Janeiro 2016	Succeeded by Pedro Causil

На других языках

[it] Yuri Alvear

[ru] Альвеар, Юри