Azercell's social campaign“White Suits Girls”, carried out in partnership with the Azerbaijan Judo Federation, also earned ...

Japan, the birthplace of judo, dominates the all-time Olympic medal table. Japan's 48 gold medals and 96 medals overall are far and away the most of any country. France (16 gold medals, 57 total ...

Naohisa Takato, Hifumi Abe, Shohei Ono, and Takanori Nagase had claimed judo gold on the men's side, while Uta Abe won gold, and Funa Tonaki silver for the women. Georgian 21-year-old judoka Lasha ...

Before setting foot on the Parisian tatami, the 35-year-old born in Guadeloupe – a region of France in the Caribbean – shared the honour of three Olympic gold medals with Japan’s Tadahiro ...

France claimed the judo gold medal in the first mixed team event ... His team mate Sarah Leonie Cysique followed suit, defeating Japan's Tsukasa Yoshida by a waza-ari inner thigh throw to make ...

Shohei Ono brought home the gold in the under-73-kilogram judo division. (Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters) Japan’s Shohei Ono, a world-class fighter who was banned in 2014 by his university as part of ...

IJF President Marius Vizer awarded the medals. Hungary’s Daniel Szegedi at -73kg took his first World Judo Tour medal, and it was gold. The young athlete’s magnificent ippon brought him ...

At +78kg, France's Coralie Hayme took her first gold medal at a Grand Prix. An osoto- gari followed by a hold down scored her waza-ari-awasete-ippon to win the contest. IJF Media & Judo for ...

Watch as France's Teddy Riner demonstrates his "absolute class" to win the four Olympic gold of his career with victory in the men's +100kg judo final on day seven of the Paris 2024. Follow the ...

PARIS--Right after Hifumi Abe violently threw his final opponent to the tatami and secured his second Olympic judo gold medal, he stood up and looked directly at his sister crying in the stands at ...

He won a gold medal at the European Judo Championships in 2023 and earned silver honors at this year’s tournament. “Nothing new for me personally, just a new page in my career and a new life ...

Sarah had to hide training sessions from her mother, sneaking her judo suit into a bag and pretending ... first Brazilian woman to win an Olympic gold medal in judo. She has chosen to reinvest ...