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Sally Conway (born 1 February 1987) is a British judoka who competed for Team GB in the 2012 and the 2016 Rio Olympics in the women's 70 kg judo event. Conway won a bronze medal in the 2016 Olympics. She competed for Scotland at women's 70 kg judo event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she won a bronze medal.
Biography
Conway was born in Bristol in 1987. Conway took up judo at the age of ten in her home town of Bristol. She trains at Judo Scotland's Edinburgh headquarters in Ratho, having previously trained at Bisham Abbey.
She competed for Scotland in the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she won a bronze medal in the −70 kg division. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she beat Chad's Carine Ngarlemdana with an ippon score after scoring with a wazaari. She then lost to second seed Edith Bosch, to a wazari after being penalised with a shido for backing off.
In 2013 she won the Olympic Athlete of the Year from the British Olympic Association and Female Player of the Year at the British Judo Awards. She was the only Scot to be part of the British team sent to the 2016 Judo World Championships. Conway was selected for the 2016 European Championships.
She competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 70kg category, defeating Israel's Linda Bolder in the quarter-finals, and then defeating Austria's Bernadette Graf to win the bronze medal.