Georgia’s Lasha Shavdatuashvili has managed to become Olympic champion, world champion and three-time Olympic medallist, he remains one of the […]
When Mark Huizinga was eighteen he sat high in the stands during the European Team Championships in Den Bosch. For […]
Hidehiko Yoshida peaked really early. His first international competition was the 1991 World Championships where he got bronze. Because he […]
If you want to understand when judo truly became a global sport, there is one name you cannot avoid. Anton […]
Ryoko Tani is among the best ever fighters in judo. Even as a lightweight, she was very small, standing at […]
A repaired elbow, a Grand Prix title over Kaja Kajzer and no more domestic selection war: the former world champion now has room to rebuild her judo.
Three tournaments into her comeback, the Paris 2024 champion beat Blandine Pont in 84 seconds for bronze and spoke openly about learning to trust her body again.
Olympic medallist Gabriella Willems and husband Christian Parlati are preparing for a new arrival, bringing Belgian and Italian judo together in a very special way.
From Olympic bronze at -66kg to world silver and world number one at -73kg, Daniel Cargnin has built his career through reinvention and Brazilian judo tradition.
Japanese world champion Wakana Koga reached the top of the -48kg world ranking on 12 October 2026, completing a five-year journey from world silver to world gold.
An unusual cross-grip reverse seoi nage by Brazil’s Lima offers a fascinating example of technical creativity. Oon Yeoh explores the movement and its tactical possibilities.
Two world champions in two years, neither of them under the Ukrainian flag. What the cadet medal tables say about Ukraine’s pipeline, and why the podiums keep ending up in other countries’ columns.
Everyone knew where the danger was and still ended up underneath her. How the Olympic champion built a complete game out of osaekomi, shime-waza and kansetsu-waza, and why it still works.
Olympic champion at 22, world champion at 29, and still rarely named among Japan’s greatest. Why the medal count undersells the most elegant uchi-mata of the 1990s, and what kept getting in its way.
Dzhebov countered him for ippon, Kim threw him and led until the last seconds, and neither has been given a rematch. The real danger to the U66kg king is Japanese, and it has a world title already.
Teddy Riner has announced his candidacy for the French presidency in 2027. He is not the first judoka to enter politics, after David Douillet and Khaltmaagiin Battulga.
Canada’s U63kg world silver medallist calls time after fifteen years, two knee injuries and a farewell she delivered personally to her greatest rival on the mat.
Three Korean national coaches let their contracts run out at the end of October. The association says nobody was sacked, but a weigh-in error at the Asian Games sits in the middle of it.
The world champion needed almost seven minutes and a counter on a tired seoi-otoshi to win her first gold at home. Van Heemst and Reid took the bronzes in two very different fights.
Seeded sixth and without a single World Tour medal from fourteen starts, the 24 year old Moroccan walked through a broken draw and won it. Where he came from and why it matters beyond him.
