Frédérique Jossinet has a new challenge in life

At the congress for social inclusion former athlete Frédérique Jossinet was invited to tell her story about the program Hundred Black belts in France. Jossinet is nine times medallist at European Championships and won three... Read more

Vicente Carratalá Deval: Many social project in the world to cooperate

Vicente Carratalá Deval of University of Valencia and the Spanish Judo Federation spoke about a study carried out in Spain, in Valencia. Three universities took part.

We wanted to find out things about social... Read more

Iliadis close to gold U100kg at Grand Slam Tokyo

At the last day of the Grand Slam of Tokyo Greek idol Ilias Iliadis came close to a third victory at the Grand Slam in Tokyo. This occasion he fought in the men’s U100kg weightclass but lost his final fight against Daisuke Kobayashi of... Read more

Dutch Linda Bolder claims only European victory so far in Tokyo

For the first time since 2002 a Dutch judoka was able to win in Japan. At the second day of the Grand Slam in Tokyo it was Linda Bolder to take the victory in the final against Haruka Tachimoto. After two days of fighting Bolder is the only... Read more

Ziggy Tabacznik spreads the message of school judo

Ziggy Tabacznik is former judo athlete who fought Nuno Delgado in the past. He is now representing school judo in the Netherlands a big project in grass roots, sports participation. Tabacznik was one of the speakers at the Social Inclusion... Read more

Japan claims all five gold medals at first day of Grand Slam Tokyo

On Friday the first day of competition of the Judo Grand Slam in Tokyo was held. The opening ceremony was the occasion for the All Japan Judo Federation and the IJF to celebrate the 130th anniversary of the creation of the Judo Kodokan. On the... Read more

Bénédicte Rouby: “judo as an education”

Bénédicte Rouby, Education Director of the EJU thanked the University and the Portuguese Judo Federation for organizing this congress. Immediately she addressed why judo is so good for social inclusion.

“Judo is like... Read more

Italian Olympic medallist Ylenia Scapin makes temporary comeback

She comes back to “rewrite the ending of her adventure”: after four participations at the Olympic Games and two bronze medals in Atlanta and Sydney, Ylenia Scapin will be back to competition. She is planning to fight for the last... Read more

Esa Niemi elected president of Finnish Judo Association

Esa Niemi has been elected to the post of president in annual meeting of Finnish Judo Association last weekend. Tapio Mäki finished his 12 years period as a federation´s president to get more time for international functions. Esa... Read more