Katie-Jemima Yeats-Brown
{{Short description|British judoka (born 1995)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox judoka
| name = Katie-Jemima Yeats-Brown
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| nickname = Mima
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1995|7|5|df=y}}
| birth_place = Pembury, England
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| country = Great Britain
| weight_class = {{nbnd}}63 kg, {{nbnd}}70 kg, {{nbnd}}78 kg
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| olympics_rank = R16
| olympics_year = 2024
| olympics_weight = Women's 70 kg
| worlds_rank = 5
| worlds_year = 2018
| worlds_weight = Women's 78 kg
| worlds_year2 = 2023
| worlds_weight2 = Women's 70 kg
| regionals_type = EU
| regionals_rank = R16
| regionals_year = 2019
| regionals_weight = Women's 78 kg
| regionals_year2 = 2023
| regionals_weight2 = Women's 70 kg
| nationals =
| commonwealth_rank = 3
| commonwealth_year = 2014
| commonwealth_weight = Women's 63 kg
| commonwealth_year2 = 2022
| commonwealth_weight2= Women's 70 kg
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{{Medal|Sport| Women's judo }}
{{Medal|Country| {{GBR2}} }}
{{Medal|Competition| IJF Grand Slam }}
{{Medal|B| 2016 Abu Dhabi | {{nbnd}}70 kg }}
{{Medal|B| 2022 Abu Dhabi | {{nbnd}}70 kg }}
{{Medal|B| 2024 Astana | {{nbnd}}70 kg }}
{{Medal|Competition| IJF Grand Prix }}
{{Medal|B| 2016 Qingdao | {{nbnd}}70 kg }}
{{Medal|B| 2019 Tel Aviv | {{nbnd}}78 kg }}
{{Medal|B| 2022 Perth | {{nbnd}}70 kg }}
{{Medal|Competition| European U23 Championships }}
{{Medal|S| 2016 Tel Aviv | {{nbnd}}70 kg }}
{{Medal|Competition| World Juniors Championships }}
{{Medal|B| 2014 Fort Lauderdale | {{nbnd}}63 kg }}
{{Medal|Competition| World Cadets Championships }}
{{Medal|B| 2011 Kyiv | {{nbnd}}63 kg }}
{{Medal|Competition| European Cadet Championships }}
{{Medal|G| 2011 Cottonera | {{nbnd}}63 kg }}
{{Medal|Country| {{ENG}} }}
{{Medal|Competition| Commonwealth Games }}
{{Medal|B| 2014 Glasgow | {{nbnd}}63 kg }}
{{Medal|B| 2022 Birmingham | {{nbnd}}70 kg }}
| updated = 31 July 2024
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Katie-Jemima Yeats-Brown (born 5 July 1995) is a British judoka{{cite web |url=http://www.judoinside.com/judoka/view/66148/judo-photos|title=Judo Inside profile |accessdate=24 September 2014}} who trains full-time at the British Judo Centre of Excellence in Walsall.{{cite news |last=Martin |first=Amy-Clare |title=Jemima Yeats-Brown gets late call to join England Commonwealth Games 2014 squad |work=Kent and Sussex Courier |location=UK |date=24 July 2014 |url=http://www.courier.co.uk/Tonbridge-judo-star-Jemima-Yeats-Brown-gets-late/story-21787309-detail/story.html |accessdate=16 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210953/http://www.courier.co.uk/Tonbridge-judo-star-Jemima-Yeats-Brown-gets-late/story-21787309-detail/story.html |archive-date=23 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}
Early life and education
Yeats-Brown is from Pembury, Kent. She graduated from the University of Wolverhampton in 2023 with a degree in Sport and Exercise Science.{{Cite web|url=https://sports-star.co.uk/interview-the-inspiring-journey-of-katie-jemima-yeats-brown-from-gymnastics-to-paris-2024/|title=Interview: The Inspiring Journey of Katie-Jemima Yeats-Brown From Gymnastics to Paris 2024|work=Sports Star|first=Anastasia-Alexandra|last=Nenova|date=1 July 2024|accessdate=11 August 2024}}
Judo career
Yeats-Brown competed for England in the {{nowrap|women's 63 kg}} event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a bronze medal.{{cite web |url=http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/squash/1061656/katie_jemima_yeats_brown.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140915093146/http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/squash/1061656/katie_jemima_yeats_brown.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=15 September 2014 |title=Glasgow 2014 profile |accessdate=15 September 2014}}{{cite news |last=Hoad |first=Alex |title=Tonbridge judo star Katie Jemima Yeats-Brown claims under-63kg bronze medal at 2014 Commonwealth Games |work=Kent Online |location=UK |date=25 July 2014 |url=http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/sport/commonwealth-bronze-for-yeats-brown-20837/ |accessdate=16 October 2014}}
She is a three times champion of Great Britain, winning the middleweight division at the British Judo Championships in 2016 and 2017 and the half-heavyweight title in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishjudo.org.uk/my-judo/competition-organisation/results/|title=British Judo Championship Results 2003 to present |website=British Judo |access-date=21 August 2022}} In 2018, she finished fifth in the 2018 World Judo Championships in Baku, when ranked world 32 on IJF ranking list. Compeign in the women's 78 kg category she lost to Guusje Steenhuis in the quarter finals.
in 2022, she went to her second Commonwealth Games, competing in the women's 70 kg category she won a bronze medal.{{cite web|url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/tonbridge/sport/yeats-brown-wins-emotional-bronze-medal-271287/ |title=Commonwealth Games 2022: Kent's Jemima Yeats-Brown wins second bronze in judo in Birmingham as she beats Rachael Hawkes |website=Kent Online |access-date=21 August 2022}}
References
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External links
- {{EJU|7848}}
- {{Sports links|properties=-P4191}}
- {{2022 Commonwealth Games profile|56412}}
- {{Team England|jemima-yeatsbrown}}
- {{The-Sports}}
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Category:Alumni of the University of Wolverhampton
Category:English female judoka
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
Category:Judoka at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Category:Judoka at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in judo
Category:European Games competitors for Great Britain
Category:Judoka at the 2019 European Games
Category:Sportspeople from Pembury
Category:Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Category:Judoka at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic judoka for Great Britain
Category:21st-century English sportswomen
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