Yarden Gerbi, Israeli world champion and Olympic bronze medalist judoka
Yarden Gerbi (or Jerbi, Hebrew: ירדן ג'רבי; born July 8, 1989) is an Israeli retired judoka world champion. She won an Olympic bronze medal competing for Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in Women's 63 kg Judo.Gerbi won the gold medal at the 2013 World Judo Championships in the -63 kg (139 lbs.) category. She won the Israeli championship five times by the age of 24, and was a silver medalist in the 2009 Maccabiah Games.
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Events on 1989
- 15Apr
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China. - 26Apr
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests - 27Apr
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. - 20May
Tiananmen Square massacre
The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre. - 5Jun
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.