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Team World Championships reactions
The final for team between Japan and France delivered a few excellent battles. Key match was between former double World Champion Chizuru Arai and current World Champion Marie-Eve Gahie of France. It was Arai who defeated the French world champ. Read more
Japan confirms candidacy for Olympic team gold
At the Team World Championships in Tokyo’s Budokan the world of judo saw the host nation taking the gold medal. Prolongation was expected but France made it a real match. The Olympic test event came to an end with the fifth gold medal for Japan. The final was witnessed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Read more
Japan and France heading for Grand Final at Mixed Team event
The eighth and final day of the World Judo Championships Tokyo 2019 has belonged to the team event and four of judo's powerhouse nations are still standing at the close of the preliminary session. Read more
Lukas Krpalek sucessfully collects world titles
Czech star Lukas Krpalek was crowned the new world heavyweight champion after a thrilling last individual contest at the World Championships. Olympic silver medallist Harasawa Hisayoshi of Japan, the world number four, was spurred on by the highly-charged crowd but it was world number two and Olympic champion U100kg Krpalek who had the advantage. Read more
Akira Sone make statement for the games with world title
Japanese prodigy Akira Sone became the youngest women’s heavyweight world champion of all time as she won the +78kg crown with a narrow victory over the legendary Idalys Ortiz (CUB). Sone, 19, who was the 2015 Cadet world champion and 2017 Junior world champion, completed her Worlds set by beating her rival Ortiz for the second time with their head-to-series even at 1-1 before the final. Read more
We will have new heavyweight World Champions
At the last day of the inidividual Championships in Tokyo defending champion Guram Tushishvili (GEO) was in devastating form in the preliminaries as he won all three of his contests by ippon to breeze into the last four. Read more
Jorge Fonseca stars for Portugal with first ever world title
Portugal finally has a world champion. So often they were so close in the finals with Telma Monteiro four times, Barbara Timo on Thursday but finally Jorge Fonseca secured that beloved title. Another world title for Sporting Club de Lisbon where also Daria Bilodid is fighting. Read more
- 30 Aug 2019Malonga seals France’s third gold medal in as many days
- 29 Aug 2019Noel van 't End breaks the curse for the Netherlands
- 29 Aug 2019Marie Eve Gahie crowned World Champion in the Budokan
- 29 Aug 2019Surprises all over at day 5 of the Worlds
- 28 Aug 2019A very special for Canadian Antoine Valois-Fortier
- 28 Aug 2019Clarisse Agbegnenou quadruple World Championships queen
- 28 Aug 2019Sagi Muki is the first male world champion for Israel
- 28 Aug 2019Matthias Casse has the key for a big political solution
- 28 Aug 2019Tokyo Preview women U63kg: Agbegnenou and Tashiro stand out
- 27 Aug 2019Shohei Ono is the coolest judoka on earth
- 27 Aug 2019Christa Deguchi writes history for Canada
- 27 Aug 2019Christa Deguchi wants to stunt in Japan
- 27 Aug 2019Shohei Ono looks concentrated, Azeri men eager to stunt
