fullname event headercolor birth_place weight height sport birth_date article_title name
elizabeth carina copes fernández 70 kg # 76abf5 la plata , argentina 70 kg lb 0 on 1.72 0 on judo 4 october 1976 elizabeth copes
 elizabeth copes
elizabeth copes

elizabeth carina copes fernández -lrb- born october 4 , 1976 in la plata -rrb- is an argentine judoka , who competed in the women 's middleweight category .
she held a 2002 argentine senior title for her own division , picked up a total of thirteen medals in her career , including a coveted bronze from the 2003 pan american games in santo domingo , dominican republic , and also represented her nation argentina at the 2004 summer olympics .
copes qualified for the argentine squad in the women 's middleweight class -lrb- 70 kg -rrb- at the 2004 summer olympics in athens , by placing second and receiving a berth from the pan american championships in margarita island , venezuela .
she overwhelmed greece 's alexia kourtelesi in front of the massive home crowd for a victory in the opening match , before falling short to dutch judoka and eventual silver medalist edith bosch , who scored an ippon and tightly wrapped her with an uchi mata makikomi fashion at one minute and nine seconds .
in the repechage round , copes gave herself a chance for an olympic bronze medal , but her powerful grips were not enough to throw and spain 's cecilia blanco into the tatami with an ippon seoi nage -lrb- one-arm shoulder throw -rrb- during their first playoff .
