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Biography
Gefen Primo (גפן פרימו; born 26 March 2000) is an Israeli judoka. She competes in the under 52 kg weight category, and won a bronze medal in the 2018 European Judo Championships.
Career
On September 15, 2017, Primo competed at the european u21 championships in Maribor and won a bronze medal after defeating Buyankhishig Purevsuren of Mongolia. On February 3, 2018, Primo competed at her first international senior competition at the 'European Open Lisbon' and won a bronze medal when she defeated Lyudmyla Pliieva of Ukraine on the medal match. On March 9, she won her first IJF World Tour medal when she won a bronze medal at the Grand Prix Agadir.
On April 26, 2018, Primo took part in the european championships in Tel Aviv and won a bronze medal in the under 52 kg weight category and became the youngest Israeli judoka to win a european championships medal. In the first round she defeated Sofia Asvesta of Cyprus by waza-ari and ippon, in the second round she defeated Charline Van Snick of Belgium by ippon. In the quarter finals she lost to Evelyne Tschopp of Switzerland. She 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.