Gefen Primo won a gold medal at the 2017 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival.
24 Facts About Gefen Primo
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Gefen Primo won individual bronze medals in the 2018 European Championships, 2021 World Championships and 2021 European Championships as well as a team bronze at the 2022 World Championships.
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Gefen Primo was born in moshav Gan HaShomron, Israel, and is Jewish.
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Gefen Primo's mother Meirav Primo is a board member of the Israel Judo Association since 2016.
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Gefen Primo was enlisted as a soldier in the Israeli Air Force in 2019, which designated her to an excellent sportsperson status.
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Gefen Primo won the gold medal in the 2015 Israeli U18 Championships in Ra'anana.
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Gefen Primo won gold medals in the 2016 European Cup Cadets Coimbra, 2016 European Cup Cadets Zagreb, and 2016 European Cup Cadets Antalya.
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Gefen Primo won the gold medal in the 2016 Israeli U21 Championships in Ra'anana.
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Gefen Primo won the gold medal at the 2017 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Hungary, won the silver medal at the 2017 European Cadet Championships in Kaunas, and a bronze medal in the 2017 European Junior Championships in Maribor, Slovenia.
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Gefen Primo won the gold medal in the 2017 European Cup Cadets in Coimbra.
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Gefen Primo won the silver medal in the 2017 European Cup U21 Athens.
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Gefen Primo won a bronze medal in the 2017 Israeli Championships in Ra'anana.
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On 3 February 2018, Gefen Primo competed at her first international senior competition at the 'Odivelas European Open' in Portugal and won a bronze medal.
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Gefen Primo went on to defeat Anja Stangar of Slovenia in the repechage and reached the bronze medal match where she defeated Irem Korkmaz of Turkey by two waza-ari after her opponent scored one.
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On 18 October, Gefen Primo won the silver medal at the 2018 World Juniors Championships in Nassau.
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Gefen Primo won the gold medal in the 2019 Montreal Grand Prix, and bronze medals in 2019 Marrakesh Grand Prix, 2019 Baku Grand Slam, 2019 Hohhot Grand Prix, and 2019 Tashkent Grand Prix.
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Gefen Primo won the gold medal in the 2019 Israeli Championships in Tel Aviv.
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At the 2021 World Championships in Budapest, Gefen Primo won a bronze medal.
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Gefen Primo won the gold medal at the 2021 Paris Grand Slam.
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Gefen Primo won bronze medals at 2022 Budapest Grand Slam, 2022 Zagreb Grand Prix and 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Slam, as well as in the mixed teams event at the 2022 World Championships.
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Gefen Primo won a gold medal at the 2023 Ulaanbaatar Grand Slam in Mongolia, and bronze medals at 2023 Paris Grand Slam, 2023 Tokyo Grand Slam, and 2023 World Masters in Budapest.
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Gefen Primo won the gold medal in the 2023 Israeli Championships in Eilat.
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Gefen Primo represented Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics in judo in the women's 52 kg, in which she came in seventh, after losing in the quarter-finals to Kosovo's Distria Krasniqi, a reigning Olympic champion.
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Gefen Primo represented Israel in the mixed team event, in which Team Israel came in ninth.