Wow an Ohio girl winning the Gold in the Olympics in Judo! Awesome!

Kayla Harrison (born July 2, 1990 in Middletown, Ohio) is a Judoka from the United States of America. She was won the Junior World Championship in 2008, and was runner-up in 2009. In 2010 she won the World Judo Championships, and in 2012 she was the gold medalist at the London Olympics in the women's -78 kg division.

She changed weight classes in 2008, from the -63 kg division to the -78 kg division. However, she couldn't compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics as the United States had not qualified in that division. She won the Junior World Championship that year, and the following year placed second, becoming the first American to compete in two Junior World Championships finals.

She won the gold medal in the -78 kg category at the World Judo Championships in 2010, the first American to do so since 1999 (when her coach, Jimmy Pedro, did so in Birmingham, England). At the 2011 World Judo Championship in Paris, she placed third taking the bronze medal. Harrison had lost to the eventual winner, Audrey Tcheumeo, in her semi-final.

Prior to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she was injured injured during training, having torn a medial collateral ligament. On August 2, 2012, she won the Olympic title in the -78 kg category, defeating Gemma Gibbons by two yukos, to become the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in judo.

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