Gella Vandecaveye
Belgian judoka
Gella Vandecaveye (born 5 June 1973 in Kortrijk, Belgium) is a judoka from Belgium who competed at four Olympic Games.
At the 1996 Summer Olympics Vandecaveye won the silver medal in the women's half-middleweight category. Four years later, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, she captured a second medal: a bronze one in the same category. She became World Champion in 1993 and 2001 and was European champion seven times in the 1994–2001 period.
Vandecaveye was named "1999 European Judoka of the Year".
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