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About Gisèle Mendy
- Gisèle Mendy (born December 19, 1979) is a Senegalese judoka, who played for the middleweight category.
- She won three medals for her division at the African Judo Championships (2005, 2006, and 2008).
- She also captured a silver medal in the same division at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria, losing out to Algeria's Rachida Ouerdane.Mendy represented Senegal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's 70 kg class.
- She lost the first preliminary round match, by an ippon (full point) and a te gatame (hand armlock), to German judoka and Olympic bronze medalist Annett Böhm.
- Because her opponent advanced further into the semi-finals, Mendy offered another shot for the bronze medal by entering the repechage rounds.
- Unfortunately, she was defeated in her first match by Ukraine's Nataliya Smal, who successfully scored a waza-ari-awasete-ippon (full point) and a kuchiki taoshi (single leg takedown), at fifty-two seconds.
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