Maria Celia Laborde

{{short description|Cuban judoka}}

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| nationality = American

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1990|8|2|df=y}}

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| height = 5 ft 1 in

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| weight_class = {{nbnd}}48 kg

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| olympics_rank = R16

| olympics_year = 2024

| olympics_weight = Women's 48 kg

| worlds_rank = 3

| worlds_year = 2014

| worlds_weight = Women's 48 kg

| regionals_type = AM

| regionals_rank = 1

| regionals_year = 2014

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{{Medal|Sport| Women's judo }}

{{Medal|Country| {{USA}} }}

{{Medal|Competition| Pan American Games }}

{{Medal|B| 2023 Santiago | {{nbnd}}48 kg }}

{{Medal|Competition| Pan American Championships }}

{{Medal|S| 2025 Santiago | {{nbnd}}48 kg }}

{{Medal|B| 2022 Lima | {{nbnd}}48 kg }}

{{Medal|B| 2023 Calgary | {{nbnd}}48 kg }}

{{Medal|B| 2024 Rio de Janeiro | {{nbnd}}48 kg }}

{{Medal|Competition| World Masters }}

{{Medal|S| 2023 Budapest | {{nbnd}}48 kg }}

{{Medal|Competition| IJF Grand Prix }}

{{Medal|G| 2022 Perth | {{nbnd}}48 kg }}

{{Medal|B| 2025 Linz | {{nbnd}}48 kg }}

{{Medal|Country| {{CUB}} }}

{{Medal|Competition| World Championships }}

{{Medal|B| 2014 Chelyabinsk | {{nbnd}}48 kg }}

{{Medal|Competition| Pan American Championships }}

{{Medal|G| 2014 Guayaquil | {{nbnd}}48 kg }}

{{Medal|Competition| IJF Grand Slam }}

{{Medal|B| 2013 Paris | {{nbnd}}48 kg }}

{{Medal|Competition| IJF Grand Prix }}

{{Medal|G| 2014 Havana | {{nbnd}}48 kg }}

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Maria Celia Laborde (born 2 August 1990) is a Cuban-born American judoka.{{cite web|url=http://www.judoinside.com/judoka/56350/Maria_Celia_Laborde |title=Maria Celia Laborde |website=judoinside.com |accessdate=2 September 2017}}

Laborde won a bronze medal at the 2014 World Judo Championships in Chelyabinsk for Cuba. After winning bronze at the 2013 Paris Grand Slam, she immigrated to the United States. According to a USA Today profile on Laborde before her first appearance at the Olympic Games in 2024, she had been third in the world in her weight class at the time, which would have made her likely to represent Cuba at the 2016 games; however, she originally intended to take those qualification points and use them to represent the USA, but was told that she required American citizenship and had to start from scratch.{{cite news |date=24 July 2024 |title=After losing an Olympic dream a decade ago, USA Judo's Maria Laborde realizes it in Paris | first=Gentry|last=Estes|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/07/24/paris-olympics-2024-usa-judo-maria-laborde-cuba/74530122007/ |work=USA Today |location= |access-date=31 July 2024}} Laborde received American citizenship in 2022, making her eligible to represent the USA, and claimed a bronze medal at the 2022 Pan American-Oceania Championships, in Lima, Peru.