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Name: Idalis Ortiz Bocourt.
Date of birth: September 27, 1989.
Place of birth: Artemisa, Havana, Cuba.
Sport: Judo.
National team: Cuba.
Coach: Ronaldo Veitía.
Tournaments: Olympic Games, Pan American Games, Pan American Championship.
Titles: National Champion, Central American Champion, Pan American Champion, World Champion, Olympic Champion.
Idalis Ortiz Bocourt: Glory of Cuban sports. National, Pan American, World and Olympic Champion. One of the most successful judoka in the history of this sport in the Island.

She obtained her first important results in the 2007 Pan American Games, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she was very close to the podium; from then on, she would begin an ascending aspiral in her sporting career that would lead her to become national, Pan American and Olympic champion in the Olympic Games.

Biographical Synthesis

Born September 27, 1989 in Artemisa, Havana, Cuba. Since she was a little girl, she has been interested in sports.

Sports career

2007 - 2008
Debuts with the Cuban judo team at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro 2007, Brazil in 2007, where to the surprise of many specialists is very close to winning a medal by finishing fifth in the open category with five victories and a single setback against the experienced French Anne-Sophíe Mondíère.

That same year she attends the World Team Championship, based in Beijing, China, where she does not win an individual medal but is second by teams with the national team.

At just 18, she participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, where she won a bronze medal as the youngest Olympic medalist in the supercomplete division. In these games she defeated the Mongolian Tserenkhand Dorjgotov and fell in the semifinals to the Chinese twice world champion Wen Tong.
That same season she won the gold medal at the Belgian Women's Open where she defeated the Mexican Vanessa Zambotti and repeated the victory at the Miami Pan American, the United States in the division + 78 kg and free. In the Tre Torri tournament, Italy wins the gold medal and is selected the best rookie.

2009 - 2012
In 2009 he won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Rotterdam and is among the 10 best judo players in the world ranking in 6th place with 440 accumulated points.

In 2010 she won the silver medal in the Tokyo Judo Grand Slam, an event in which she beat Brazilian Maria Suelen Althamam and Japanese Kanae Yamabe before losing in the final against Japanese Megumi Tachimoto. She was also selected as the most outstanding athlete in the Cuban Sports Olympiad and won a gold medal in her division.
In the National Judo Championship, based in Guantánamo, she defeats Heidy Abreu and is chosen by the Cuban sports administration among the ten best athletes of the year on the Island.

In 2011 she is the best Cuban athlete in the world ranking, occupying the fourth place in the division of more than 78 Kg. In that season he participates in the World Championship celebrated in Paris where he occupies the 5th place; the National Judo Championship celebrated in the Ramón Fonst Polyvalent Hall of Havana where he wins the gold medal; the Pan American Judo Championship in the Gimnasio Code II, of the Mexican city of Guadalajara, winning in its division by one ippon and three by wazari, beating in the final to Mexican Vanessa Zambotti by this last difference.
She obtained a gold medal in the Pan-American qualifying round in Ecuador, where she was awarded the Ippon Trofi Prize. She also won the International Golden Judoguis Cup held in the Ramón Fonst Multipurpose Hall.

In the 2011 Guadalajara Pan American Games, he defeated Puerto Rican Melissa Mojica in the finals, who had reached this stretch after spectacularly defeating Brazilian Maria Altheman by ippón. In this fight Idalis was fast and precise in his technique, to take the victory by ippón before the end of regulation time.

For her sporting results, she is distinguished for the second consecutive time among the ten best athletes of the year in Cuba.
She begins the year 2012 obtaining the bronze in the Grand Slam of Paris where she falls closedly in semifinals before the first of the world Mgumi Tachimoto of Japan. In this event he obtained three victories and one defeat, which allowed him to add 120 units to the world ranking.
He wins the gold medal in the World Cup in Warsaw, Poland after defeating Polish Ursula Sadkowska by wazari technical superiority, to add his sixth success to the thread.
Previously, she had overtaken Venezuelan Giovanna Blanco for yuko; Dutch Carola Vilenhoed (for wazari); Gulzhan Issanova (for yuko) from Kazakhstan; and French Ketty Mathe (for ippon).

Repeat the victory in the Championship

In the Judo Grand Prix that ended on June 9 at the Coliseum of Havana's Ciudad Deportiva, he was unable to win a medal, placing himself in one of the cystic places[14].

On August 30 she won again the title in (+78 kg), in the XXX World Judo Championship held in Chelyabinsk, Russia, becoming double champion in these games, with four victories in equal number of starts, all by ippón, except the semifinal fight. She was chosen as the best athlete of the contest[15], [16].
She was chosen to escort with Yarisley Silva the multi Olympic champion of Greco-Roman wrestling, Mijaín López, who was chosen as the standard-bearer of the Cuban delegation to the Central American Games Veracruz 2014, to be held in Mexico from November 14, a ceremony that took place on October 28 of this year in Havana[17]. Shortly after, he attended the Brazilian Team Grand Prix - where he contributed to the coronation of the Minas Tennis Club - concluded on November 16 in Sao Paulo, where he overtook Tuany Siqueira for abandonment.
She participated as a member of the Cuban women's judo team that won the gold medal at the XXII Central American and Caribbean Games Veracruz 2014. In that competition she also won the title in her +78 Kg Kg division when she overcame Puerto Rican Melissa Mojica[18] in the gold medal final.

A few days after the Central American Games ended, on December 5, he left for Japan to participate in the Tokyo Grand Slam where he could not win medals. She finished in the lowest position: she beat Franziska Konitz by ippón in the playoff round, but gave up for bronze against Megumi Tachimoto, defending champion of the tournament[19].
At the end of 2014, she was chosen again by the survey sponsored by INDER and the UPEC Circle of Sports Chroniclers as the Best Female Athlete of the Year in Cuba[20]. In addition, she obtained one of the prizes awarded to the most relevant judocas of 2014 according to the World Prestige Ranking established starting this year by the International Federation (IJF) [21].
On July 14, at the Mississagua Sports Center, she retained her crown from four years ago and dismissed the Cuban judo in the second place of the tournament corresponding to the XVII Pan American Games in Toronto 2015, beating in the final the Mexican Vanessa Zambotti, who put up resistance during the four minutes of action and it was not possible to carry out important technical actions.[22].
Selected by the survey organized by INDER and the specialized press among the 10 best athletes of 2015 in Cuba[23].
On January 24, 2016, she won a gold medal at the Judo Grand Prix held at the Sports City Coliseum in Havana, Cuba[24].
On May 15, he won the gold medal at the Judo Grand Prix in Almaty, Kazakhstan in more than 78 kg[25].
On July 3, he won the Mongolian Grand Prix, beating Japan's Ichihasi Suzuka in the final[26].

Sports results
Year Tournament City Country Result
2008 Women's Open Belgium 3era
2008 Olympic Games Beijing China 3rd
2009 World Championship Rotterdam Netherlands 3rd
2010 Grand Slam Tokyo Japan 2nd
2010 World Championship Tokyo Japan 3rd
2010 Arlon Open Belgium Belgium
2010 Pan American Grand Prix Panama City Panama
2010 Pan American Championship San Salvador El Salvador
2010 World Cup Sao Paulo Brazil
2010 World Cup Margarita Island Venezuela
2010 World Championship Tokyo Japan
2010 Grand Slam Villa de Paris France
2010 Grand Slam Rio de Janeiro Brazil
2010 V Cuban Sports Olympiad Havana Cuba
2011 Arlon Belgium Open
2011 Grand Slam Paris France
2011 Grand Slam Rio de Janeiro Brazil
2011 Brazil Grand Prix
2011 Pan American Qualifiers Guayaquil Ecuador
2011 Laval Open France
2011 World Championship Paris France
2011 International Golden Judoquis Tournament Havana Cuba
2011 Pan American Judo Championship Gualdalajara Mexico
2011 Pan American Games Gualdalajara Mexico
2012 Grand Slam Paris France
2012 World Cup Warsaw Poland
2012 Pan American Judo Championship Montreal Canada
2012 IV Open Tournament Miami United States
2012 Olympic Games London London United Kingdom
2012 Grand Slam Tokyo Japan
2013 Arlon Open Belgium Belgium
2013 Grand Slam Paris France
2013 Laval International Tournament Laval France
2013 National Judo Championship for Women Sancti Spíritus Cuba
2013 World Masters Tyumen Tournament Russia
2013 Miami Grand Prix Miami United States
2013 Kazan Universiades Russia
2013 Iniversiadas Open Category Kazan Russia
2013 World Judo Championship Rio de Janeiro Brazil
2013 Interclub Grand Prix of Brazil Rio de Janeiro Brazil
2013 Tokyo Japan Grand Slam Tournament
2014 Arlon Open Belgium Belgium
2014 Grand Slam Paris France
2014 Pan American Championship Guayaquil Ecuador
2014 XXX World Judo Championship Chelyabinsk Russia
2014 Brazilian Grand Prix Sao Paulo Brazil
2014 Central American Games Veracruz Mexico
2014 Tokyo Tokyo Grand Slam Japan
2015 XVII Pan American Games Toronto Canada
2016 Grand Prix Havana Cuba
2016 Grand Prix Almaty Kazakhstan
2016 Grand Prix Ulan Bator Mongolia

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