Madeleine Malonga Judoka

Madeleine Malonga

Country:France
Born:25 December 1993 (26 years)
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French judoka Madeleine Malonga became World Ckampion in 2019 in the Budokan in Tokyo. She was European senior champion in 2018 and bronze in 2019. She won the Grand Slam in Paris in 2019 and medalled four times in Paris. Malonga won gold in 2018 in GP Zagreb. She became European Junior Champion Judo in 2013 in Sarajevo. She won the Grand Prix in Samsun. She took a silver medal at the IJF Masters in St. Petersburg in 2017. She took bronze at the 2019 European Games in Minsk.

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Sagi Muki concludes successful 2019 as top earner

31 Dec 2019 11:05

The IJF will continue its end-of-year tradition of awarding a prize money bonus to all 14 world number ones on the final IJF World Ranking List for 2019. The bonus, which was first introduced in 2016, will see the world number one’s in each of the 14 weight categories scoop a bonus of $10,000 per judoka. Read more

French women lead the last World Ranking of 2019

19 Dec 2019 09:00

Looking at the World Ranking, this year wasn’t so different than 2018. Especially in the women’s division some of the same leaders top the IJF World Ranking. Not surprisingly World Champions Daria Bilodid and Clarisse Agbegnenou who retained title in Tokyo reign in their categories. Read more

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Slovenian Klara Apotekar captures first Grand Slam title

26 Oct 2019 17:10

World number nine Klara Apotekar of Slovenia won her maiden Grand Slam gold medal and maintained her 100% record against world number 12 Luise Malzahn (GER) by winning the U78kg final. Apotekar was awarded the win after 50 seconds of golden score when the 21-time Grand Prix medallist from Germany was given a direct direct hansoku-make for endangering the right arm of her opponent. Read more

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Malonga seals France’s third gold medal in as many days

30 Aug 2019 17:15

Madeleine Malonga is the new World Champion U78kg. In the Budokan in Tokyo the French woman defeated defending world champion Hamada Shori of Japan who conceded her world crown to Malonga. The French team now captured three gold medal. Malonga followed the success of her teammates Clarisse Agbegnenou (U63kg) and Marie Eve Gahie (U70kg) who won gold on Wednesday and Thursday respectively. Read more

Klara Apotekar continues Slovenian golden streak

24 Jun 2019 17:20

You just cannot believe it, Guusje Steenhuis cannot believe it but Guusje Steenhuis lost her third European Championships final away. Slovenian Klara Apotekar was the one who snatched this European Games title. Apotekar was the winner of a pool with Natalie Powell and Bernadette Graf and both were more favourite on paper, but Apotekar steadily grew to this level for a long period and the differences are small. Read more