EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
Russian Elena Ivashchenko collected her fourth European title. In Chelyabinsk she prolonged last year’s title of Istanbul in the final against Lucija Polavder. A well known rival, she fought the Slovenian 16 times in international matches and won her 11th encounter. This year Ivashchenko was better in the final of…
28 April 2012EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
Never too old to win. Ariel Zeevi had a glancy period between 2001 and 2004 when he won three European titles. Now he is 35 but still enjoying judo and his joy flows into the tatami when he is fighting. He is still the best ever fighter for Israel and…
28 April 2012EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
Abigel Joo won the European title U78kg. In Chelyabinsk she defeated World Champion Audrey Tcheumeo from France. The two strongest European fighters in this category qualified for the final U78kg today. World Champion Audrey Tcheumeo of France and Abigel Joo, the 2010 European Champion. After two minutes and fifteen seconds…
28 April 2012EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
Georgian Varlam Liparteliani finally won the European title. In an attractive final against homeplayer Grigorii Sulemin he collected his first European title after his third final (2009 and 2010). Liparteliani is ready for the Olympic Games and mentally this is an important motivation winning a final. This year he is…
28 April 2012EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
Sirazhudin Magomedov built up quite some reputation U81kg. Despite the competition in his own country he won three European medals in a row. Today he won back his European title of 2010. In between he won bronze in Istanbul. He treated the homecrowd with a delicious meal: an all Russian…
27 April 2012EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
Dutch Edith Bosch won her fourth European Championships title on Friday in Chelyabinsk. The tall Dutch defeated Katarzyna Klys of Poland in the final U70kg. Bosch who debuted in 2000 in Wroclaw has now won her seventh medal in the U70kg category and is the most successful woman since the…
27 April 2012EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
The Olympian of France Olympic team for London, Ugo Legrand won his first European title. 23-year old former World Junior Champion and current bronze at the last World Championships today in the final category U73 was dominant over Ukrainian Volodymyr Soroka. Three penalties against Soroka was more than enough to…
27 April 2012EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
Gevrise Emane has won the European Championships title U63kg. Not for the first time though. She prolongs her title of last year in Istanbul and won her fourth title. In 2006 and 2007 she won the European title U70kg. Now the World Champion dominated her category again and could break…
27 April 2012EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
Telma Monteiro celebrates a good year with the European title and her fourth in her career. She is the outperformer in Portuguese sports. Today she confirmed how important the athlete is for Portugal and their hopes for an Olympic medal winning the U57kg category and gained back her title of…
26 April 2012EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
In the men’s division the Russian athletes were motivated by the crowd Alim Gadanov finished his final match against Tomas Kowalski with a lovely smile for the cameras. Gadanov is Russia’s number two, but only in points. Both Gadanov as Musa Mogushkov are determined to win a medal at the…
26 April 2012EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
The victory of Romanian Andreea Chitu was a big surprise. In the final U52kg she threw double European Champion Natalya Kuzyutina in a devastating Ippon and took the second gold medal for Romania at the first day of the European Championships in Chelyabinsk. The last time this happened was in…
26 April 2012EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
Russia celebrated the first European title U60kg since 2009 when Arsen Galstyan won in Tbilisi. On the first day of the European Championships Beslan Mudranov was able to beat Hovhannes Davtyan of Armenia in the final after he had defeated the strong Amiran Papinashvili in the semi final. Sad for…
26 April 2012EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
What a day it has been for Romania. A fantastic result with two gold medals for Romania starting with the category U48kg. The Ippon of Dumitru and the way she celebrated her eighth gold medal told the story. Alina Dumitru won her eighth European title and equals the record of…
26 April 2012EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
In the press centre of the of the Traktor venue a press conference was organised with Mikhail Yurevich, Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region and EJU President Sergey Soloveychik. Together with EJU Referee Director Jan Snijders they commented on the first day of the Championships in Chelyabinsk Mikhail Yurevich, Governor of…
26 April 2012EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
On Wednesday the draw ceremony was held in the Malakhit Hotel. The rivals for the first 14 fights in all weight divisions of individual competitions for men and women were defined. The governor of the Chelyabinsk region Mikhail Yurevich opened the ceremony. The head of the region thanked foreign guests…
25 April 2012EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
The start of the European Championships in Chelyabinsk have made a fantastic impression. The organization is great and the draw was presented in a nice way despite the formality of the seeding and checking of names. At the main hotel in Chelyabinsk the Governor of Chelyabinsk welcomed the athletes, coaches…
25 April 2012EC Seniors Individual - Chelyabinsk, Russia
Russia has selected a 14-strong men team for the European Judo Championships – two athletes from each weight division. “All the guys are ready for the championships. They don’t need to gain points. They are participating in these championships because it will be held in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Moreover, all athletes…
19 April 2012
EC Seniors Individual