GJAKOVA Nora

Olympic Games

Year	Location	-57 kg
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	9

World Championships

Year	Location	-57 kg
2021	Budapest, HUN	3
2019	Tokyo, JPN	7
2018	Baku, AZE	7
2017	Budapest, HUN	9
2015	Astana, KAZ	9
2014	Chelyabinsk, RUS	17
2013	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	7
2011	Paris, FRA	33
2010	Tokyo, JPN	17
2009	Rotterdam, NED	17

European Championships

Year	Location	-57 kg
2021	Lisbon, POR	3
2019	Minsk, BLR	2
2018	Tel Aviv, ISR	1
2017	Warsaw, POL	3

World Masters

Year	Location	-57 kg
2021	Doha, QAT	3
2019	Qingdao, CHN	17
2018	Guangzhou, CHN	2
2017	St. Petersburg, RUS	9

Grand Slam - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	9th	16th	17th	30th-33rd
2021	-57 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2020	-57 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	1x	-	-	-
2019	-57 kg	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	1x	-
2018	-57 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-
2017	-57 kg	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Prix - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2020	-57 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019	-57 kg	1x	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018	-57 kg	2x	1x	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-
2017	-57 kg	2x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

World Cup - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	4rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2017	-57 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Slam, Grand Prix & World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2021	-57 kg	Grand Slam	Tbilisi, GEO
1	2019	-57 kg	Grand Prix	Tbilisi, GEO
1	2018	-57 kg	Grand Slam	Abu Dhabi, UAE
1	2018	-57 kg	Grand Prix	Antalya, TUR
1	2018	-57 kg	Grand Prix	Tunis, TUN
1	2017	-57 kg	Grand Prix	The Hague, NED
1	2017	-57 kg	Grand Prix	Antalya, TUR
2	2019	-57 kg	Grand Prix	Budapest, HUN
2	2018	-57 kg	Grand Prix	Tashkent, UZB
3	2020	-57 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
3	2020	-57 kg	Grand Prix	Tel Aviv, ISR
3	2017	-57 kg	World Cup	Sofia, BUL

Athlete

European College of Kosovo, Pristina, KOS

Albanian, English, Serbian

Ippon Judo Club [Pec, KOS]

Driton Kuka [club, national], KOS

Her younger brother Akil Gjakova has also represented Kosovo in judo, and competed at the world championships in 2017, 2018 and 2019. (oxygenpress.info, 03 Mar 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 26 Jun 2020)

She began judo at age 10 with her younger brother. (baku2015.com, 30 Jun 2015)

"My brother is four years younger than me, we went to judo training together and he was better. He was throwing me, and I did not like that at all. Soon I was better. He stood no chance with me, until he became much heavier than me." (kosovotwopointzero.com, 16 Jun 2015)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (lesechos.fr, 23 Aug 2019)

Winning a gold medal in the -57kg category at the 2018 European Championships in Tel Aviv, Israel, and winning bronze in the -57kg category at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. "It was a very special event [Baku 2015] as Kosovo participated at a multisport event for the first time and I won my first senior medal." (epokaere.com, 20 Jun 2019; Radiotelevizioni 21 YouTube channel, 26 Apr 2018)

She was named the 2018 Female Athlete of Year by the Olympic Committee of Kosovo. (oxygenpress.info, 03 Mar 2019)