Ihar Makarau captures title at Grand Prix Qingdao

Belarusian Ihar Makarau has won the gold medal in the heavyweight category at the Grand Prix of Qingdao. Makarau was the only left European in the semi final where he defeated Brazilian Rafael Silva. In the final the former Olympic Champion U100kg... Read more

Ukraine leads medal tally Grand Prix Qingdao

Three gold medals for European judoka at the first day of the Grand Prix of Qingdao. The Chinese Open is the last event of the year in the World Judo Tour.
European Champion Georgii Zantaraia won the U60kg category by a victory over Japanese... Read more

Russia strikes at men's heavyweights taking two gold medals

At the last day of the Grand Slam in Tokyo Russia won two surprising gold medals. In the men’s category U100kg Sergey Samoilovich defeated Hwang Hee-Tae in the final. Alexander Mikhailin won the plus category in the final against Cho Gu-Ham... Read more

London Olympic prepares for judo event

London Prepares for the Olympics and this weekend the International Invitational Judo Test Event will take place in the Olympic Venue The ExCel. This event is part of the London Prepares series, the London 2012 sports testing programme, and has a... Read more

Germany takes three medals at last day of World Junior Championships

The World Junior Championships began with the national anthem of Japan. The last music to be played in Cape Town to conclude this year edition of the Junior World Judo Championship was… the national anthem of Japan. With the final victory of... Read more

Russia and Austria enjoy fantastic judo day

Russia was today’s European outperformer at the third day of the World Junior Championships in Capetown with an all Russian final U90kg where Kazbek Zhankishiev won the world title. Remarkable however was Austria’s gold medal by Bernadette... Read more

Four Junior World titles for Japan at 2nd day

Japan was the undisputed winner of the second day of the World Junior Championships in Capetown. They won all four categories and is now leading with seven out of eight categories, a remarkable score. For Europe eight medals, among them two... Read more

Sakhavat Gadzhiev takes second world title

Seven medals for Europe at the first day in Cape Town, one more than last year’s lightweights, and those were all bronze. This edition one gold, one silver and five bronze, a promising start.

Sakhavat Gadzhiev has won the world title for... Read more

World Junior Championships kickoff in Cape Town

This week the World Junior Championships take place in Cape Town, South Africa. For the second year in a row the IJF has a World Championship in Africa. Last year it was held in Agadir, Morocco.

Jean-Luc Rougé, the IJF General Secretary... Read more