José Camacho (judoka)

José Camacho
Personal information
Full name José Gregorio Camacho Lascarro
Nationality  Venezuela
Born (1983-04-26) 26 April 1983
Barinas, Barinas, Venezuela
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Weight 90 kg (198 lb)
Sport
Sport Judo
Event(s) 90 kg
Medal record
Men's judo
Representing  Venezuela
Pan American Games
2007 Rio de Janeiro 90 kg
Pan American Championships
2007 Montreal 90 kg
2006 Buenos Aires 90 kg
2011 Guadalajara 90 kg

José Gregorio Camacho Lascarro (born April 26, 1983 in Barinas) is a Venezuelan judoka, who played for the middleweight category.[1] He is a two-time Olympian, a three-time medalist at the Pan American Judo Championships, and a bronze medalist for his division at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[2][3]

Camacho made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he lost the first preliminary match of men's middleweight class (90 kg), with an ippon and a kuchiki-taoshi (single leg takedown), to Argentina's Eduardo Costa.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Camacho competed for the second time in men's 90 kg class. Unlike his previous Olympics, Camacho defeated Ukraine's Valentyn Grekov in the first preliminary round, before losing out his next match, with an ippon and a tomoe nage (circle throw) to Pan American judo champion Eduardo Santos of Brazil.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "José Camacho". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "Rousey Wins Gold Over Brazil, Hawn Wins Bronze". Team USA. 19 July 2007. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Ricardo Valderrama consigue la plata en campeonato panamericano de judo de Guadalajara" [Ricardo Valderrama gets silver in judo Pan American Championships in Guadalajara] (in Spanish). Correo del Orinoco. 4 April 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "Men's Middleweight (90kg/198 lbs) Preliminaries". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
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