OLYMPIC PROFILE: Sophie Cox (From News Shopper)

OLYMPIC PROFILE: Sophie Cox

2:07pm Tuesday 24th July 2012 in Sport

Name: Sophie Cox.

Age: 30.

Event: Judo women’s U52kg.

Location: ExCel Arena.

Time: July 29.

Local link: Lives in Dartford.

Career best: Undefeated British champion for six years, won two European golds.

Career high: Took bronze at both the 2010 World Cup and the 2011 British World Cup.

Sporting background: Took up judo at the age of six and secured her black belt at 15.

Within a year of this she had become British champion, a position she remained undefeated for six years until taking a temporary spell of ‘retirement’ after the 2004 Olympics to teach English in Thailand.

She says: Let’s hope I can continue to make history in London.

We say: The biggest dangers to Sophie’s medal prospects come from Russia’s Natalia Kuzyutina and Misato Nakamura of Japan.