News
Home » Judo news
The latest Judo News offered by JudoInside.com
Egyptian men capture two titles at African Championships
8 Apr 2016 20:55

The plus category at the African Championships in Tunisia delivered the expected winners and both for the host nation Tunisia. Faicel Jaballah had won two African Games and today he added his 7th African Championships title. This time against Mohammed Tayeb (ALG). Although the final wasn’t worth watching with 4 penalties Jaballah won 2 seconds for the end by hansokumake.
Egypt won two gold medals today and with their strong men’s team they met the expectations starting with gold U81kg. Mohamed Abdelaal continued his success after winning the African Games last year in an all Egyptian final against Ali Hazem by waza-ari. Last year’s gold medallist Abdelaziz Ben Ammar (TUN) won bronze this time accompanied by Hamza Drid of Algeria.
The Algerians were the nation with the most medals today, nine in total and the highlight was the gold for Abderrahmane Benamadi (WRL-20) who prolonged the African title U90kg. Four strong men in the semi finals, but it was Zack Piontek (RSA) who defeated Hatem Abd El Akher and Benamadi bested Imad Abdellaoui (MAR). Piontek vs Benamadi was the dream final. Piontek booked recently success with bronze in Lima, but Benamadi took gold at the African Open in Casablanca. Piontek won the last two meetings, but still 2-2 head2head. Benamadi was the most convincing one today with yuko and waza-ari although he needed the full time against Piontek.
The best final of the day was for men U100kg between Ramadan Darwish of Egypt and Lyes Bouyacoub of Algeria. They know each other so well and always close, last battle was won by Bouyacoub in Libreville one year ago but now Darwish led by a yuko and he won his match by oseikomi. The former number two of the IJF World Ranking is back and ready for Rio de Janeiro. After two silver medals in 2014 and 2015 he is the champion of Africa again after Bouyacoub won it twice. A super battle witnessed by IJF President Marius L. Vizer who also wants Africa to get a medal at the Olympic Games. In the history both Egypt and Algeria won two Olympic medals, even two in 2008, but the competition is intense and the hope for a miracle is most likely possible in the last two days of the Games with U100kg and +100kg, but even that is not so easy.
On Saturday the men U60, U66, U73kg and Open categories are scheduled.
Related judoka and events
Related Judo Photos
Related Judo Videos
Related Judo News

Old African generation hard to topple at flagship event
As expected in our preview of the African Championships Algeria and Tunisia became the strongest nations of Africa, both collected four titles in Cape Town followed by Egypt, also not a surprise with three gold medals. The details of the surprises can be found in the names and order of the medals. Read more

Botswana ecstatic over first African Open gold medal
It was a legendary African Open this weekend for Botswana. Although Algeria was clearly the best nation at the African Open in Yaounde this weekend with 8 gold medals, there was lots more to celebrate for other less typically strong judo nations. Read more

Nadjib Temmar the big man in Algerian judo team
With seven gold medals Algeria was clearly the leading nation of Africa this weekend. At the African Championship in Madagascar the team took seven gold medals, just as much as the 2011 edition. With 18 medals in total also the amount of medals was a clear success. Read more
 sm.jpg)
African Judo Championships help qualifying for Rio2016
Athletes from 31 nations will fight for the essential Qualification Points to participate at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. The African Championships in Tunis are more important than ever and in the 14 weight classes each point can help the athletes to Rio. Last year at the African Championships the current host Tunisia was amazingly strong picking 50% of all 16 available medals including Open category. Eight titles for the current host nation rises the expectations. Tunisia and Algeria ended equal in the men’s division but in the women Tunisia won with 5 gold medals. Read more
.jpg)
More than 300 athletes at African Open in Casablanca
About 300 athletes from more than 50 nations will be present at the African Open in Casablanca, one of the last qualifying possibilities and the last in Africa, excepted for the continental championships. The African Open in Morocco will obviously present a strong home team winning four medals last year and five in 2014. Assmaa Niang and Rizlen Zouak even medalled in both editions. Read more
189
days
Judo birthday

Antonin Blandin (FRA)
26 years
Result | City | Date |
---|---|---|
5 | Doha | 13 Jan |
1 | Prague | 2020 |
1 | Budapest | 2020 |
1 | Perth | 2019 |
1 | Wuhan | 2019 |
Result | City | Date |
---|---|---|
1 | Düsseldorf | 2020 |
1 | Tokyo | 2019 |
1 | Tokyo | 2019 |
1 | Fukuoka | 2019 |
1 | Düsseldorf | 2019 |