Giovanna Blanco

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Blanco and the second or maternal family name is Blazon.

Giovanna Blanco

Personal information
Born	December 18, 1982
Medal record Women's Judo Representing Venezuela Pan American Games 2003 Santo Domingo Heavyweight South American Games 2006 Buenos Aires Open Class 2006 Buenos Aires Heavyweight Central American and Caribbean Games 2006 Cartagena Open 2006 Cartagena +78 kg 2006 Cartagena Team

Giovanna José Blanco Bazon (born December 18, 1982) is a female judoka from Venezuela, who won the silver medal in the women's heavyweight division (+ 78 kg) at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Career

Blanco won the silver medal at the 2003 Pan American Games, and represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

She won the gold medal in the open category, silver in over 78 kg and bronze in the team competition of the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics she lost to Japanese Mika Sugimoto after only 51 seconds in the second round of the +78 kg category.