Vera Koval

Vera Vyacheslavovna Koval is a Russian judoka, who competed in the half-middleweight category. She won two medals for her division at the 2009 [European Judo Championships] in Tbilisi, Georgia, and at the 2010 European Judo Championships in Vienna, Austria. She also competes in women's sumo, including at the World Championships.

Career

Koval represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the Judo at the [2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 63 kg|women's half-middleweight] class. Unfortunately, she lost the first preliminary match to Netherlands' Elisabeth Willeboordse, who successfully scored a yuko and a morote gari at the end of the five-minute period.