Shori Hamada turned 36 today, but there is something more remarkable than her longevity alone. The Japanese U78kg Olympic champion is still competing internationally in an era in which many of the ...

On 16 September 2007, Yasuyuki Muneta captured his second world title in Rio de Janeiro, four years after becoming world champion in Osaka in 2003. The Japanese heavyweight was one of the most ...

Fourteen years after winning Olympic bronze in London, Rosalba Forciniti is competing again. There is no U52kg weigh-in this time, no judogi and no Olympic medal waiting at the end, but anyone who ...

There are few double Olympic champions whose international careers are as difficult to reconstruct as that of Xian Dongmei. The Chinese lightweight, who celebrates her 51st birthday today, won Olympic ...

Raz Hershko won her seventh Grand Slam title with a spectacular o-soto-gari against France's Célia Cancan in the +78kg final in Budapest. The Paris 2024 Olympic silver medallist needed only one ...

Aleksandar Kukolj has reached the stage of his judo life where another gold medal does not fundamentally change his career. The Serbian has been a European champion, a World Championships silver ...

An incident following a German Judo Bundesliga contest has overshadowed the latest round of competition after Georgian judoka Akaki Japaridze struck German Olympian Timo Cavelius shortly after their ...

Ernesto Pérez Lobo remains one of the most important male judoka Spain has produced. The Madrid heavyweight reached the Olympic final in Atlanta in 1996, competed at three Olympic Games and remained ...

Find the judo results of the Brno Cup 2026 in Czech Republic in 2026. We offer the medal table and for major events all matches, photos and videos.

Exactly 54 years after Paul Barth won an Olympic bronze medal in Munich, German judo is mourning one of the leading figures of its early Olympic generation. On 1 September 1972, Barth stepped on to ...

Léa Fontaine defeated compatriot Romane Dicko to capture the +78kg title at the Lausanne Grand Slam, turning an all French final in her favour with a well timed makikomi before immediately continuing ...

Ilia Sulamanidze confirmed his position among the leading U100kg judoka in the world by defeating Dutchman Simeon Catharina in the final of the Lausanne Grand Slam. A single yuko separated the two, ...