Sharon Rendle
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Sharon Susan Rendle MBE (born 18 June 1966 in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire) is a female retired judoka from the United Kingdom.[1]
Early life
In the early 1980s she trained twice a week at Grimsby Judo club. 23 year old Ann Lucitt, from the Grimsby club, won silver at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.[2]
In January 1988 the minibus of Grimsby College was stolen in London, at an event, and much of the belongings were lost.[3]
She is only 5 feet tall. She lived with Ann Lucitt on Hawthorne Avenue in New Waltham from the mid-1980s, with coach Jennie and Terry Alltoft.[4]
Judo career
Rendle competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992, when she won a bronze medal in the women's featherweight division (Template:Nbnd52 kg). She was a multiple medal winner at the World Championships including winning gold at both the 1987 and the 1989 World Championships, also in the women's featherweight division (Template:Nbnd52 kg).
Rendle also won a gold medal in the [[Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics#Women's demonstration games|Template:Nbnd52 kg division]] at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where women's judo was held as a demonstration sport. She also represented England at the 1990 Commonwealth Games and won a gold medal in the Template:Nbnd52 kg half-lightweight category, at the judo event in Auckland, New Zealand.[5][6]
In 1986, Rendle won the gold medal in the Template:Nbnd52 kg weight category at the judo demonstration sport event as part of the 1986 Commonwealth Games.[7] In addition to her international success she was champion of Great Britain on four occasions, winning the featherweight division at the British Judo Championships in 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1991.[8]
In the late 1990s she became the Australian national coach.[9]
References
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