Recapping the most essential highlights from Olympic judo history, from the event's origin and timeline to all the most iconic moments & athletes, a comprehensive list of year-by-year results, and 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 the ...

PARIS--French judoka Luka Mkheidze credited a traditional Japanese food with giving him and his teammates the lift they needed to win medals at the Paris Olympics.

Under longtime coach Oren Smadja, Muki rose to the top of the sport. He won world gold in Tokyo in 2019, two European titles, ...

A female Saudi fighter will take part in the Olympic judo competition after being allowed to wear an Islamic headscarf, or hijab, of a specific design, officials said on Monday. Wojdan Ali Seraj ...

You would have forgiven Akio Kaminaga for losing his cool. Heading into the gold-medal match at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, the Japanese judo champion was under enormous pressure. That year’s Games ...

PARIS, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Teddy Riner won the decisive bout against Japan's Tatsuru Saito in a moment of great drama to give France the judo mixed team title at the Paris Games on Saturday, earning him ...

Khammo, who was born on 11 June 1994, in Donetsk, Ukraine, and now lives in Kyiv, first stepped onto the mat at the age of eight. Over the years he has grown into one of Ukraine's prominent ...

The 2026 IJF Grand Prix in Linz concluded with a significant victory for Great Britain's judoka in the -73 kg category. The 22-year-old defeated three Olympic medallists to secure his nation's third ...

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