Fair Play Award for Bulgarian Yoana Damyanova
Bulgarian Yoana Damyanova is a 16-year-old teenager. She will be 17 on the 1st of May. When she arrived at the Geneva Airport on January 27th, she was rather intimidated. For such young girl, traveling alone across Europe, to come from Sofia... Read more
2011/01/30 | 03:40 pm | in EJU
Alexander Mikhailin in the driver seat for London 2012
Russia dominated the World Cup in Tbilisi. The men’s heavyweight category was an All Russian final between good old Alexander Mikhailin and Andrey Volkov. Triple World Champion Mikhailin seems to be back on track for Olympic Qualification after... Read more
2011/01/30 | 02:47 pm | in EJU
German women dominate in Sofia
The German women’s team won the most medals at the first World Cup of this year. Just like yesterday the women won three medals in all colors. Russia follows in the medal tally with seven medals, five bronze, silver and bronze.The German... Read more
2011/01/29 | 08:27 pm | in EJU
Georgia honours their icons in Tbilisi
Kazakhstan leads after day one at the World Cup of Tbilisi. Sergey Lim (KAZ) won the category U66kg in the final against Serhiy Drebot (UKR). Lim was runner up at the World Junior Championships in Santo Domingo in 2006 and won his fourth World Cup... Read more
2011/01/29 | 06:03 pm | in EJU
Germany leads the medal dance at World Cup in Sofia
Germany is leading the medal tally after day one of the first World Cup weekend of 2011. The German women won three medals at the World Cup of Sofia. In the Bulgaria capital it was Miryam Roper who won gold U57kg. In the final she defeated her... Read more
2011/01/29 | 10:12 am | in EJU
Mikhaylin still chasing Olympic dream
When, as a fresh faced 16 year old, Alexander Mikhaylin (RUS) collected a bronze medal at the European Youth Olympics in 1995 he showed every sign of being able to go far in the sport. And so it proved. That early promise was put to a tough test... Read more
2011/01/28 | 08:35 am | in EJU
World Cup circuit kicks off in Sofia and Tbilisi
This weekend the World Cup of Sofia and Tbilisi are the first two events kicking off the season 2011 for the EJU. This qualification year is extremely important and the EJU strives for more medals at the London Olympics in 2012.At the... Read more
2011/01/20 | 03:45 pm | in EJU
EJU determines OTC support for potential European Olympic medallists
This week the Olympic Training Camp in Mittersill will end. A great list of participants was present in Austria to train with eachother and meanwhile the Masters in Baku were held with good European results.The OTC’s are meant to give the... Read more
EJU organises Kodokan Kata course in Europe
The EJU will organise a traditional Kodokan Kata Course from 2-7 March in Zagreb, Croatia. The Teachers of the Course will be a team of experts coming from the Kodokan of Tokyo. This historical event represents a historical Kata collaboration... Read more
Merci Céline! Judo icon retires
Céline Lebrun retired from international judo. At the Grand Slam of Paris she will be thanked for her amazing tribute to judo, to French Judo and her presence for years in the category U78kg. Now Céline is 34 years but still among the top of the... Read more
