Vera Koval

Vera Vyacheslavovna Koval (Вера Вячеславовна Коваль; born 22 October 1983 in Bryansk) is a Russian judoka, who competed in the half-middleweight category. She won two medals (silver and bronze) for her division at the 2009 European Judo Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia, and at the 2010 European Judo Championships in Vienna, Austria. She also competes in women's sumo, including at the World Championships.

Career
Koval represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's half-middleweight class (63 kg). Unfortunately, she lost the first preliminary match to Netherlands' Elisabeth Willeboordse, who successfully scored a yuko and a morote gari (two hand reap) at the end of the five-minute period.