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Frenchman Kenny Liveze EYOF, European and World Champion
Kenny Liveze became the third ever cadet World Champion for France. In Almaty he captured the title U90kg against Dzhavad Guseinov. Liveze won the world title, the European title and the EYOF and is the most successful male cadet in Europe, and in fact the world. Read more
Ai Tsunoda delivers Spain the first ever cadet world title
Ever a Spanish fighter was in a final of the Cadet World Championships but on the last day of the individual tournament AI Tsunoda even won the gold medal. She already was Cadet European Champion and is the undisputed number one of the world. Read more
Irakli Demetrashvili defeats Giga Tatiashvili in all Georgian final
The last final of the fourth of the World Championships day was a Georgian party between two friends. In the men +90kg category Irakli Demetrashvili and Giga Tatiashvili secured the first gold medal for their country after a perfect day. Demetrashvili was fit from the very first match on and became the executioner of the two Russians competing in the category. Read more
Anna Santos is the first Brazilian heavyweight world champion
On Saturday was the fourth and last day of the individual competition at the World Judo Championships Cadets in Almaty. The heavyweights were under the spotlights, tall, strong and really powerful judoka. The sound we were looking for, that melodic explosion, was produced in bursts on the three tatamis of the enclosure as the matches took place. It is the sound of ippon and it sounds rampant. Read more
Turkish judo shines with world title for Habibe Afyonlu
The World Championships final of the girls U63kg was a carbon copy of the U57kg one, because both the Turkish Habibe Afyonlu and the Japanese Yazawa Auri were far from being the favorites at the beginning of the day. Little by little they were winning their fights, and they did it with style and without trembling. In the semifinals the Turkish eliminated Belgium and world number one Alessia Corrao. Read more
Adam Kopecky brings another world title to Czech Judo
Judo in the Czech Republic is booming these days. Besides the third world title for Lukas Krpalek now Adam Kopecky captured the cadet world title, the first ever in his country. In June he won the European cadet title and he takes it all in 2019. Read more
Ryunosuke Otake takes fourth cadet gold for Japan
Japan was strong on day three of the Cadet World Championships with two gold medals and a leading position on the medal table in Almaty. Both Japanese boys and girls are strong but they are followed by some of the European top countries. On the podium U81kg it was not different, strong Asian countries in the lead followed by two European countries. Read more
- 27 Sep 2019Japan takes double gold with Rin Eguchi and Ryunosuke Otake
- 27 Sep 2019Rafaela Silva stripped of her Panam Games medal
- 26 Sep 2019Abrek Naguchev has great examples to succeed and to fail
- 26 Sep 2019Keiji Tsujioka knows his examples with a cadet world title
- 26 Sep 2019Italian family medal for Veronica Toniolo in Almaty
- 26 Sep 2019World Champion Hikari Yoshioka left Japan for the first time
- 25 Sep 2019Hatton's death is a wake-up call for all athletes
- 25 Sep 2019Lin Chong-Yu gives Chinese Taipei the world title
- 25 Sep 2019Turkish lightweight Merve Azak takes it all in 2019
- 25 Sep 2019Kazakhstan delivers another lightweight Cadet World Champion
- 25 Sep 2019Hungarian Luca Mamira captures World title U40kg
- 25 Sep 2019Taipei's Lin Chong-You stunts to first male World gold
- 25 Sep 2019New experiences for cadets at worlds in Almaty
