News
Home » Judo news
The latest Judo News offered by JudoInside.com
Zagreb crushes all records with almost 800 youngsters
12 Mar 2018 14:30

Almost 800 judoka from 37 nations and lots of coaches attended the European Cup for Cadets in Zagreb. Not far away from home, the Hungarian judoka performed best with three gold medals, followed by the Croatian talents, also capturing three gold medals but no other medals, very efficient though.
The organization is experienced for years and knows to handle such amount of athletes, nonetheless 793 improved the all time record of all European Cups in all ages ever. The previous record was just one judoka less, also in Zagreb. Zagreb, Berlin and Teplice are the top events for the cadets this season as a preparation and qualification for the European Championships, EYOF and, later this year the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires.
One of the successful teams was Brazil with nine medals the most successful team in terms of medals. One the bigger nations France was less efficient with three lost finals. With 14 medal winning nations the tournament was successful and started on Saturday with gold for Italy. Giulia Giorgi took gold U40kg. Not much later Carlotta AVanzato took the second gold for Italy U48kg. Croatia was successful with its young women’s generation picking up three gold medals. Ana Viktorija Puljiz U44kg, Lara Cvjetko on Sunday U57kg and Katarina Kristo U63kg. Lisa Grabner won the first gold medal of the season for Austria U52kg. Stephan Hegyi was the most successful cadet ever for Austria.
The strong German team has dominated this level of judo for year but could only secure one gold medal by Raffaela Igl U70kg, what a competition they have in Germany in this class. Brazil is always strong in the heavyweight category +70kg and Anna Santos won gold. Brazil won two gold medals just like last year in Zagreb.
In the boys division Hungary was really strong with three gold for lightweight Balint Gombas U50kg, Gyorgy Szatmari U60 and on Sunday for heavyweight Richard Sipocz. He prolonged the title of last year in Zagreb when Hungary captured 4 gold medals.
Belarus is not only successful in the new senior generation but also at this level with gold for Artsiom Kolasau U55kg. Hamza Jashari surprised for Macedonia with gold U66kg, a weight class with 86 young men. On Sunday the class U73kg had even 90 participants, a record at European level, never there were such a big poules in any weight class. Adrian Sulca of Romania had the honour to win the battle and had to win seven contests. If you survive such battles, you can say you are the right winner.
Marcos Santos of Brazil took the first gold medal for Brazil U81kg, the second ever for Brazil in this category where top athletes stood up like Leandro Guilheiro, Rafael Macedo, Victor Penalber and Flavio Canto, nice examples who all led the World Ranking in this class.
Slovenia won the first and only gold this weekend in Zagreb by Rok Pogorevc in the class U90kg.
Many coaches on the side for the youngsters among them famous athletes such as Gevrise Emane of France, who won three world titles, Olympic bronze and five senior European titles. What an example.
Related judoka and events
Related Judo Photos
Related Judo News

Cadet European Champions have to be patient for senior transition
Another victory for Dutch Marin Visser, this time the most precious medal of the season. At the Cadet European Championships the Dutch won her category U63kg in which she is fighting for three years. The 17-year old gave the Netherlands the third place in the medal ranking after two days. Read more

Khasan Khalmurzaev inspirator for cadet boys at day 3 in Chile
At the third day of the Cadet World Championships Balkan countries seemed to go for their chances. In the girls’ division Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia have good medal chances. Georgia and perhaps Tajikistan are expected medal catchers in the boys categories. But as always the Japanese will set the tone. Who will we see in the future senior or junior division? Read more

Russia is the best cadet European nation since 2005
At the second and last day of individual tournament of the Cadet European Championships Georgia captured two gold medals. Again, seven different nations claimed titles, but some were the same as Friday’s winners. Russia and Georgia were victorious in the medal table. Read more

Russian young men take 7 out of 8 gold medals in Follonica
The first European Cup for Cadets was hosted by Italy. The city of Follonica saw eight Russian youngsters take 50% of all gold medals and a total of 26 medals. The Italian home team had a hopeful results with 9 medals, all three colours. Hungary and Croatia both won two medals. Polish Nikola Szlachta won the first gold medal for her country this season. Read more

Russia takes record junior gold medals in Porec
The Russian men dominated the first two days of the Junior European Championships with four gold medals, a 100% score. Russia’s golden boys were Khetag Basaev U60kg, Kazbek Naguchev U66kg, Armen Agaian U73kg and David Karapetyan U81kg, four gold medals in a row. It was the first time ever Russian men were able to captured four European Junior titles. In 2018 and 2019 Russia had no male champions. Read more
189
days
Judo birthday

Cécile Herate (FRA)
33 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 |