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| Born | (1981-10-09) 9 October 1981 (age 43) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Judoka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Slovenia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Judo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | –63 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic Games |  (2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Champ. | 
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Urška Žolnir (born 9 October 1981) is a Slovenian politician and a retired judoka. She is a member of Judo Club Sankaku Celje.
She won the bronze medal in the half-middleweight (–63 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics and gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in the same division. That makes her the most successful Slovenian judoka of all time.
She was the Slovenian flagbearer at the 2008 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations.
She is a candidate for the Slovenian National Assembly under the Party Povežimo Slovenijo.
References
- "Video: Prva slovenska medalja v Londonu – Žolnirjeva kar zlata!".
- "Athens 2004 – Judo – Women's -63 kg". olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
- "London 2012 – Judo – Women's -63 kg". olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Urška Žolnir". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
External links
[REDACTED] Media related to Urška Žolnir at Wikimedia Commons
- Urška Žolnir at the International Judo Federation
- Urška Žolnir at JudoInside.com
- Urška Žolnir at Olympics.com
- Urška Žolnir at Olympedia
- Urška Žolnir at The-Sports.org
- Urška Žolnir at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- Urška Žolnir on Facebook
- Judo club Sankaku
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| Preceded byBeno Lapajne | Flagbearer for  Slovenia Beijing 2008 |
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