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Paris OG 2024
-57 kg: Deguchi's Wait is Over

She did it! Christa Deguchi can finally add an Olympic gold to her two world championship golds.

Paris OG 2024
Heydarov Turns Everything Upside Down

How can you ask for more intensity? How can you ask for more commitment than that of the two finalists ...

Paris OG 2024
Everything is Going So Fast

She is smiling, happy to be here, enthusiastic. Marie-José Pérec, triple Olympic champion in athletics ...

Paris OG 2024
The Youngest Judo Fan

Karen Murakami is only 3 years old but is already an ardent judo fan having taken up the sport at the ...

Paris OG 2024
-57 kg: Preliminaries

This much-discussed category is stacked, piled high with world, Olympic and continental medallists.

Paris OG 2024
-73kg: Preliminaries

Even if we could find the recent world champion, Hidayat Heydarov (AZE), at the top of the draw, he still ...

Statement from the International Judo Federation (IJF)

On 28th July 2024 Messaoud Redouane Dris from Algeria was disqualified during the official weight control ...

Referee Stories
Lubomir Petr: To Enjoy it is the Point

To be an Olympic referee is something special, to do it 3 times is incredible! Lubomir Petr was a referee ...

NewsParis OG 2024
-52 kg: Uzbekistan's Prodigy Confirms Her Trajectory

The new Olympic champion is Diyora Keldiyorova! It is a first ever Olympic medal for a woman in Uzbek ...

Paris OG 2024
Diyora Keldiyorova Makes History and Hifumi Abe Wins Second Gold

On the second day of competition at the Olympic judo tournament in Paris, we had all the ingredients ...

Paris OG 2024
Hifumi Abe Scores the Double in Paris

There was no real suspense during the final between Hifumi Abe (JPN), the defending champion, and the ...

Paris OG 2024
Making History is Only the Beginning

History was made on the first day of the judo competition with Sweden winning their first ever Olympic ...