Kody Andrews | |
Birth Date: | 12 June 2000 |
Birth Place: | Christchurch, New Zealand |
Height: | 1.94 m |
Weight: | 108 kg |
Country: | New Zealand |
Weight Class: | +100 kg |
Club: | Premiere Equipe Judo Club |
Worlds Rank: | R32 |
Worlds Year: | 2022 |
Worlds Weight: | Men's +100 kg |
Regionals Type: | OC |
Regionals Rank: | 7 |
Regionals Year: | 2022 |
Commonwealth Rank: | 2 |
Commonwealth Year: | 2022 |
Commonwealth Weight: | Men's +100 kg |
Updated: | 14 May 2023 |
Kody Andrews (born 12 June 2000) is a New Zealand judoka, who won the silver medal in the over-100 kg category representing his country at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Andrews was born on 12 June 2000 in Christchurch, where he is a member of the Premiere Equipe Judo Club.[1] He was runner-up in the under-90 kg class at the 2018 New Zealand national judo championships. The following year, he moved up to the under-100 kg category, and again finished in second place. He first competed overseas at the 2019 Oceania Open under-21 tournament in Perth, Australia, where he won the under-100 kg event.[2]
In 2022, in the lead-up to the Commonwealth Games, Andrews trained and competed overseas. He placed seventh in the over-100 kg class in World Cup events at both the Tunis Open and Algiers Open in March, and was also seventh in the same class at the 2022 Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships in Lima the following month.[2] He then finished in second place in the over-100 kg class at the European Cup event at Winterthur in July,[2] before winning the silver medal in the same division at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.