Fabienne Kocher | |
Birth Date: | 13 June 1993 |
Country: | Switzerland |
Weight Class: | 52 kg |
Olympics Rank: | 5 |
Olympics Year: | 2020 |
Olympics Weight: | Women's 52 kg |
Worlds Rank: | 3 |
Worlds Year: | 2021 |
Worlds Weight: | Women's 52 kg |
Regionals Type: | EU |
Regionals Rank: | 7 |
Regionals Year: | 2020 |
Regionals Weight: | Women's 52 kg |
Regionals Year2: | 2021 |
Regionals Weight2: | Women's 52 kg |
Regionals Year3: | 2022 |
Regionals Weight3: | Women's 52 kg |
Updated: | 3 May 2024 |
Fabienne Kocher (born 13 June 1993) is a Swiss judoka. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 52 kg event at the 2021 World Judo Championships held in Budapest, Hungary.[1] [2] [3] She also represented Switzerland at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Kocher previously competed at the World Judo Championships in 2014 and 2015 in the women's 57 kg event and in 2018 and 2019 in the women's 52 kg event. She also competed in the women's 52 kg event at the European Judo Championships in 2020 and 2021.
In 2019, Kocher represented Switzerland in the women's 52 kg event at the European Games held in Minsk, Belarus. She was eliminated in her second match by Majlinda Kelmendi of Kosovo.
In 2021, Kocher lost her bronze medal match in the women's 52 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[4] [5]
Kocher won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2022 Judo Grand Prix Almada held in Almada, Portugal.[6] She also won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2022 Judo Grand Slam Paris held in Paris, France.
In March 2022, she won the Aargau Sportswoman of the Year award.[7]