VELENSEK Anamari

Olympic Games

Year	Location	-78 kg
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	3
2012	London, GBR	17

World Championships

Year	Location	-78 kg	+78 kg	Team
2021	Budapest, HUN	-	9	-
2019	Tokyo, JPN	-	9	-
2018	Baku, AZE	-	17	-
2015	Astana, KAZ	2	-	-
2014	Chelyabinsk, RUS	3	-	7
2013	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	9	-	-
2011	Paris, FRA	9	-	-
2010	Tokyo, JPN	9	-	-

European Championships

Year	Location	+78 kg
2019	Minsk, BLR	9
2018	Tel Aviv, ISR	9

World Masters

Year	Location	+78 kg
2019	Qingdao, CHN	17

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

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	9th	16th	17th	30th-33rd
2020	+78 kg	-	-	-	-	-	2x	-	-	-
2019	+78 kg	-	-	1x	1x	-	-	-	3x	-
2018	+78 kg	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	2x	-

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

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2019	+78 kg	-	-	2x	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018	+78 kg	1x	1x	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-
2017	+78 kg	1x	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-

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
2021	+78 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2021	+78 kg	World Cup	Zagreb, CRO
1	2018	+78 kg	Grand Prix	Zagreb, CRO
1	2017	+78 kg	Grand Prix	Tashkent, UZB
2	2018	+78 kg	Grand Prix	Agadir, MAR
3	2019	+78 kg	Grand Slam	Baku, AZE
3	2019	+78 kg	Grand Prix	Zagreb, CRO
3	2019	+78 kg	Grand Prix	Tel Aviv, ISR
3	2017	+78 kg	Grand Prix	Cancun, MEX
5	2019	+78 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
5	2018	+78 kg	Grand Prix	Tunis, TUN

Ana (siol.net, 10 Sep 2015)

Armed Forces Athlete

Social Work Studies - Celje School Centre, Slovenia

Slovene

Judo Klub Z'dezele Sankaku [Celje, SLO]

Marjan Fabjan [club], SLO

She is the half-sister of judoka Klara Apotekar, who has represented Slovenia at international level and won gold in the -78kg category at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus. (SportsDeskOnline, 04 Jul 2021; siol.net, 28 Jun 2015; judoinside.com, 01 Apr 2016)

She took up judo at age eight at the Sankaku club in Slovenia. (sankaku-klub.si, 01 May 2012)

As a child she often visited a building next to a judo club, so she was curious why so many people went there. She was a very active child who also liked basketball and attended music school, but judo became her favourite thing to do. (siol.net, 10 Sep 2015)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (morel.si, 12 Jun 2021)