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Full name | Nataliya Aleksandrovna Yukhareva | ||||||||||||||
Born | Saint Petersburg, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 17 September 1975||||||||||||||
Occupation | Judoka | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
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Country | Russia | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Judo | ||||||||||||||
Weight class | –57 kg | ||||||||||||||
Club | SKA St. Petersburg | ||||||||||||||
Coached by | Sergey Yukharev | ||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
Olympic Games | 7th (2004) | ||||||||||||||
World Champ. | 9th (2007) | ||||||||||||||
European Champ. | (2004) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Profile at external databases | |||||||||||||||
IJF | 52956 | ||||||||||||||
JudoInside.com | 31037 | ||||||||||||||
Updated on 19 November 2022. |
Nataliya Aleksandrovna Yukhareva (Russian: Наталья Александровна Юхарева; born 17 September 1975 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian judoka who competed in the women's lightweight category.[1] She held a 2007 Russian senior title for her own division, picked up a total of seventeen medals in her career, including a bronze from the European Championships, and finished seventh in the 57-kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Throughout most of her sporting career, Yukhareva trained as a full-fledged member of the judo squad for SKA St. Petersburg, under her personal coach, father, and sensei Sergey Yukharev.[2][3]
Yukhareva qualified for the Russian squad in the women's lightweight class (57 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by placing third from the European Championships in Bucharest, Romania.[4][5] She got off to a rough start with a sudden-death defeat from North Korean judoka and 1996 Olympic champion Kye Sun-hui in the prelims. With her opponent moving further into the final, Yukhareva permitted herself a chance for an Olympic bronze medal by immediately clutching Malta's Marcon Bezzina and Great Britain's Sophie Cox in the repechage round, but fell short to France's Barbara Harel by a double yuko and a seoi nage (shoulder throw) in their subsequent match, relegating Yukhareva into the seventh position.[6][7]