Sarah Clark

Sarah Clark (born 3 January 1978) is a British judoka, who has competed at three Olympic Games.

Judo career Clark got her Shodan black belt at the young age of 15. Clark came to prominence when winning the Scottish Championships in 1997. In 2000 and 2001 she won back to back half-middleweight British titles at the British Judo Championships.

Clark represented the 2002 Scottish team at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England, where she competed in the 63 kg category and won a silver medal.

In 2004, she was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece, she competed in the half-middleweight (-63 kg) category and reached the last 16, where she was beaten by the eventual silver medalist, Claudia Heill. She then lost to Ronda Rousey in the first round of the repechage. and she achieved her best result to date, which was a European gold medal at the 2006 European Judo Championships, in Tampere. of the women's 63 kg. The following year in 2009, a silver medal at the 2009 European Judo Championships took her tally to a European medal of every colour. From 2008 to 2012 she secured three more British titles, bringing her total to seven.

In 2014, she won the gold medal in the 63kg for Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.