The 24-year-old from Coventry beat Switzerland\u2019s Fabienne Kocher by ippon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An early scoring waza-ari gave Giles the advantage and she showed the greater composure to secure success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt feels so special to do it in Japan. I believed I could do it, my coach has always believed I could and it showed in today\u2019s performance,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI felt really good in the warm-up, and I was taking each fight as it came. It\u2019s an amazing arena and the atmosphere was amazing. To do it where Japan started it, it makes it extra special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI never underestimate any of my fights, that\u2019s where mistakes are made. I go into the fight knowing what they do, and knowing what I\u2019m capable of doing. With my best performance, I know I can beat some of the top players and today showed that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Giles had lost to eventual gold medallist Japan\u2019s Uta Abe in the quarter-finals, but beat Charline van Snick of Belgium in the repechage to give herself a medal chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The 24-year-old from Coventry beat Switzerland\u2019s Fabienne Kocher by ippon. An early scoring waza-ari gave Giles the advantage and she showed the greater composure to secure success. \u201cIt feels so special to do it in Japan. I believed I could do it, my coach has always believed I could and it showed in today\u2019s performance,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-15 10:33:33","action":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajajudo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajajudo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajajudo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajajudo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajajudo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajajudo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4292,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajajudo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions\/4292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajajudo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajajudo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajajudo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}