Laura Vargas Koch

Laura Vargas Koch
Personal information
NationalityGerman
Born (1990-06-29) 29 June 1990
OccupationJudoka
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Sport
Country Germany
SportJudo
–70 kg
Achievements and titles
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) (2016)
2nd place, silver medalist(s) (2013)
2nd place, silver medalist(s) (2014, 2015)
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place2016 Rio de Janeiro‍–‍70 kg
World Championships
Silver medal – second place2013 Rio de Janeiro‍–‍70 kg
Bronze medal – third place2014 ChelyabinskWomen's team
European Games
Silver medal – second place2015 Baku‍–‍70 kg
Silver medal – second place2015 BakuWomen's team
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2018 YekaterinburgMixed team
Silver medal – second place2014 Montpellier‍–‍70 kg
Bronze medal – third place2013 Budapest‍–‍70 kg
Bronze medal – third place2013 BudapestWomen's team
IJF Grand Slam
Gold medal – first place2014 Abu Dhabi‍–‍70 kg
Gold medal – first place2015 Abu Dhabi‍–‍70 kg
Silver medal – second place2013 Baku‍–‍70 kg
Silver medal – second place2015 Paris‍–‍70 kg
Bronze medal – third place2013 Paris‍–‍70 kg
Bronze medal – third place2013 Moscow‍–‍70 kg
Bronze medal – third place2014 Tokyo‍–‍70 kg
IJF Grand Prix
Gold medal – first place2013 Rijeka‍–‍70 kg
Gold medal – first place2014 Samsun‍–‍70 kg
Gold medal – first place2014 Havana‍–‍70 kg
Gold medal – first place2014 Tashkent‍–‍70 kg
Silver medal – second place2013 Düsseldorf‍–‍70 kg
Silver medal – second place2014 Jeju‍–‍70 kg
Silver medal – second place2016 Budapest‍–‍70 kg
Silver medal – second place2019 Tbilisi‍–‍70 kg
Bronze medal – third place2012 Qingdao‍–‍70 kg
Bronze medal – third place2014 Astana‍–‍70 kg
Bronze medal – third place2015 Budapest‍–‍70 kg
Bronze medal – third place2015 Jeju‍–‍70 kg
Bronze medal – third place2016 Düsseldorf‍–‍70 kg
Bronze medal – third place2017 The Hague‍–‍70 kg
Bronze medal – third place2019 Marrakesh‍–‍70 kg
European U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place2011 Tyumen‍–‍70 kg
Silver medal – second place2010 Sarajevo‍–‍70 kg
Summer Universiade
Silver medal – second place2011 Shenzhen‍–‍70 kg
Profile at external databases
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Updated on 24 May 2023

Laura Vargas Koch (born 29 June 1990) is a German former judoka and Olympic medalist[1][2] and computer scientist and applied mathematician.[3] She is University Professor at RWTH Aachen University where she heads the chair of algorithmic game theory and discrete mathematics.[4]

Judo competition

Vargas Koch competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the women's 70 kg division. She won a bronze medal by defeating María Bernabéu of Spain in the bronze medal match.[5] She retired in 2020 after a knee injury.[6]

Academic career

She completed a Ph.D. in 2020 at RWTH Aachen University with the dissertation Competitive variants of discrete and continuous flows over time supervised by Britta Peis.[7] Her research concerns algorithmic game theory applied to problems including traffic flow and network routing. She took a professorship at the University of Bonn after postdoctoral research with Rico Zenklusen at ETH Zurich and with José Correa at the Center for Mathematical Modeling of the University of Chile,[8] before returning to RWTH Aachen as a professor.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Laura Vargas Koch". judoinside. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Laura Vargas Koch". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
  3. ↑ To verify the connection between these two identities, see e.g. "Award: Silver for Laura Vargas Koch at the Judo Grand Prix in Tiflis" from the noticeboard of the RWTH Aachen research group UnRAVeL – UNcertainty and Randomness in Algorithms, VErification and Logic, retrieved 20 February 2024
  4. 1 2 "Laura Vargas Koch". Algorithmic Game Theory and Discrete Mathematics Teaching and Research Unit. RWTH Aachen University. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  5. ↑ "Women -70 kg". Rio 2016 Olympics. Archived from the original on 31 August 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  6. ↑ Crowley, Jo (23 February 2020). "From Mats to Maths: Laura Vargas Koch Retires". IJF News. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  7. ↑ Laura Vargas Koch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  8. ↑ Koch, Laura Vargas. "About me". sites.google.com. Retrieved 20 February 2024.

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