Winston Gordon
Judo
Middleweight
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Date of Birth: |
09/11/1976 |
| Lives: |
Wandsworth, London |
| Born: |
London |
| Country of Birth: |
England |
| Height: |
189 |
| Weight: |
90 |
| Club: |
Wandsworth Lightning/Budowkai |
| Coach: |
Eric Bonti, Mark Earle |
| Occupation: |
Athlete |
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Winston Gordon competed in the mens 90kg judo catagory at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. He lost to Khurshid Nabiev and did not progress to the repechage.
Gordon took up judo aged 13, and gained his black belt just three years later. He has cited his first coach, Simon Hicks, as his biggest influence on his career.
At the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Gordon narrowly missed out on an Olympic medal, losing his semi-final match to Zurab Zviadauri (GEO), who went on to win gold, and then lost bronze match to Mark Huizinga (NED).
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OG: 5th (-90kg) Athens GRE Aug 04. WCh: 7th (-90kg) Rio de Janeiro BRA Sep 07. ECh: 7th (-90kg) Oviedo ESP May 98; 7th (-90kg) Bratislava (SVK) May 99 5th (-90kg) Maribor SLO May 02; bronze (-90kg) Tampere FIN May 06. CG: gold – for ENG (-90kg) Manchester GBR Jul 02. WC: bronze (-90kg) Prague CZE Mar 08. EJCh: bronze (-86kg) Monte Carlo FRA Nov 96.
- 2008 Prague World Cup - Bronze
- 2007 British Open - Silver
- 2007 Moscow Super World Cup - Bronze
- 2007 Warsaw World Cup – Bronze
- 2007 Belgium Open - Silver
- 2007 German Open - Bronze
- 2006 European Championships - Bronze
- 2005 British Open - Silver
- 2004 Athens Olympics - 5th
- 2004 German Super A Tournament - Bronze
- 2004 Paris Super A Tournament - 5th
- 2004 Moscow Super A Tournament - Bronze
- 2003 Swedish Open - Gold
- 2002 Commonwealth Games - Gold
- 2002 Senior European Championships - 5th
- 2002 Dutch A Tournament - Bronze
- 2002 Belgium Open - Bronze
- 2002 Rotterdam A Tournament - Bronze
- 2001 Warsaw A Tournament - Bronze