GUICA Ecaterina

Date of Birth: 9 Oct 1993

Age: 27

Gender: Female

Youth Olympian

Place of birth: BUCHAREST

Birth Country:

Romania

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Judo	Women -52 kg	17

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 2	Women -52 kg Elimination Round of 32 #12 BEL van SNICK Cvan SNICK Charline 11s1 IPP CAN GUICA EGUICA Ecaterina 0	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	-52 kg
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	9

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	-52 kg
2010	Singapore, SIN	13

World Championships

Year	Location	-52 kg
2021	Budapest, HUN	9
2019	Tokyo, JPN	17
2018	Baku, AZE	33
2017	Budapest, HUN	17
2015	Astana, KAZ	17

Pan American Championships

Year	Location	-52 kg
2020	Montreal, QC, CAN	1
2019	Lima, PER	7
2018	San Jose, CRC	3
2017	Panama City, PAN	3

World Masters

Year	Location	-52 kg
2021	Doha, QAT	17
2019	Qingdao, CHN	9
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	-52 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-
2019	-52 kg	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-
2018	-52 kg	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	1x	-
2017	-52 kg	-	-	-	1x	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	-52 kg	-	-	1x	-	1x	-	1x	-	-
2018	-52 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	3x	-	-
2017	-52 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
2019	-52 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-
2018	-52 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017	-52 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2018	-52 kg	World Cup	Odivelas, POR
2	2017	-52 kg	Grand Prix	Hohhot, CHN
3	2019	-52 kg	Grand Prix	Hohhot, CHN
3	2018	-52 kg	Grand Prix	Budapest, HUN
3	2017	-52 kg	World Cup	Sofia, BUL
5	2017	-52 kg	Grand Slam	Yekaterinburg, RUS
7	2019	-52 kg	Grand Slam	Osaka, JPN
7	2019	-52 kg	Grand Prix	Montreal, FRA
7	2017	-52 kg	Grand Slam	Tokyo, JPN
7	2017	-52 kg	Grand Prix	Dusseldorf, GER

Cate (makeachamp.com, 31 Mar 2015)

Occupation:

Psychology - Concordia University, Montreal, QC, CAN

Languages spoken:

Janusz Pawlowski [national], POL; Sasha Mehmedovic [national], CAN

Sporting relatives:

Her father Catalin Guica was a three-time Romanian national judo champion. (judo-amcg.ca, 31 Aug 2015; judoinside.com, 09 Oct 2009)

She began judo at age five. (makeachamp.com, 31 Mar 2015)

Her father ran a judo club. "Ever since I can remember judo has been my biggest passion. Even as a little kid, I have always been dreaming about the Olympic Games." (makeachamp.com, 31 Mar 2015)

Ukrainian judoka Georgii Zantaraia. (judocanada.org, 03 Jul 2016)

Philosophy:

"Although judo is an individual sport, you can definitely not make it to the Olympics alone." (Facebook page, 01 May 2016)

General Interest

Belt grade
Black belt - II DAN (IJF, 15 Jul 2016)

Preferred techniques
Tani-otoshi (IJF, 17 Jul 2016)

General
FROM ROMANIA TO CANADA
She was born in Bucharest, Romania and moved to Montreal, QC, Canada with her family as a baby for her father, Catalin, to work as a coach. (concordia.ca, 14 Jul 2015; montrealgazette.com, 14 Apr 2010)

FAMILY BUSINESS
She has served as an assistant coach at her family's judo club, Judo AMCG, in Longueuil, QC, Canada. The club was founded by her father after the family moved there from Romania. (judo-amcg.ca, 31 Aug 2015)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/cate.guica

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
IPP:: Ippon

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