Karina Bryant

Quick Facts

Full Name	Karina Bryant
Occupation	Judoka
Date Of Birth	Jan 27, 1979(1979-01-27)
Age	45
Birthplace	Kingston upon Thames
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Capricorn

Karina Bryant Biography

Karina Bryant is one of the most popular and richest Judoka who was born on January 27, 1979 in Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom. Karina Bryant (born 27 January 1979) is a British Judoka from Britain. She has been a part of Great Britain at four successive Olympics with an Olympic bronze in the heavyweight competition in her final Games at the 2012 Summer Olympics held in London. She has won seven times in both European Judo Championships and the World Judo Championships, and was a four-time European Champion on four occasions.

She was injured on her neck during the year 2011 and was not able to practice for six weeks. However, she did take part in a month-long period of training in 2012 to regain the fitness level. She was aided through the National Lottery so that she could prepare to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics, but found it difficult financially to make the necessary financial commitments. She began an effort to raise the amount of the amount of PS5,000 to purchase a car to replace her previous vehicle, since she had been through a lot of issues with it. She took part in 2012. European Championships and qualified out of the pool, but was defeated to the tune of Russian Elena Ivashchenko. She took the next repechage to win the bronze medal of the competition which was her seventh gold medal on her European stage.

On 2 August 2013 Bryant announced her retirement from professional Judo saying “I feel my body is telling me this is the right time to retire.” She had three surgeries after the London Olympics but aggravated an old injury when she tried to return to training.

Bryant announced her retirement from professional Judo in August 2013.

She was picked twice more to represent Great Britain at the Olympics in 2004 in Athens and the year 2008, in Beijing. She made it to the quarter-finals at the 2004 Olympics, but could not make it to the repechage stage, and was unable to make it through in the 16th round twice more in 2008.

Karina Bryant Net Worth

Karina Bryant is one of the richest Judoka from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Karina Bryant 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She took part in into the European Junior Championships in 1995 and competed in the class of over 72 kg She won the silver medal. In the following year, an additional European silver medal was awarded but she was one level higher and took home her first World Junior Championships. She took home a second Junior World title in 1998 and then was awarded her first European championship for the very first time the same year.

The first time she made an Olympic appearance during in the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Australia. She was part of the British team who attended the opening ceremony. She is nostalgic about it, “I remember just seeing so many British flags and it felt so good. I will never forget that moment.” She was in the final round of 16 but was eliminated from the contest.

On 26 June 2012, Bryant was confirmed a competitor with the rest of the British judoka squad. She was selected to compete in the over 78 kg section, and the appearance would mark it as her fourth Olympic Games. On 3 August, she started her campaign at the Games; her first match was a victory over Algeria’s competitor Sonia Asselah. In her round of 16, she edged past third- seeded Slovenian Lucija Polavder, the 2008 Olympic bronze medalist. In the quarter-final she beat Kazakhstan’s Gulzhan Issanova to set up a semi-final match against Japan’s Mika Sugimoto. However, she lost that bout, sending her into a play-off for the bronze medal against Iryna Kindzerska from Ukraine.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Facts & Trivia

Karina Ranked on the list of most popular Judoka. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Karina Bryant celebrates birthday on January 27 of every year.