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OTP WJC 2025
Georgia! It's Georgia! World Mixed Team Champions!

The final block began at 6pm sharp and flew by so fast, throw after throw and nail-biting moments one ...

OTP WJC 2025
The Mixed Team Preliminaries - Wow!

In 2017 the mixed team format was included in the senior world championship programme for the first time. ...

Athlete Stories
Eteri Liparteliani: the Pioneer

Since 1992, when Georgia first appeared at global sporting events, Eteri Liparteliani is now the first ...

Athlete Stories
A New Generation of Role Models

Twenty-one year old Timur Arbuzov and twenty-three year old Matvey Kanikovskiy are fast becoming the ...

OTP WJC 2025
From World Champions to Honoured Guests, the Whole Judo Family Wins

Fourteen incredible judoka have been crowned in Budapest, 14 world champions among medalists from 20 ...

OTP WJC 2025
+100 kg: Tasoev Doubles His World Title

In the last final of the OTP Bank World Judo Championships Hungary, Guram Tushishvili held the hopes ...

OTP WJC 2025
The 2026 World Championships Head to Azerbaijan

On the eve of the closing ceremony of the OTP Bank World Judo Championships Hungary, the attention of ...

OTP WJC 2025
+78 kg: Hayun Kim Takes Her First Senior World Title

On the final day of the individual categories at the OTP Bank World Judo championships, the heavyweight ...

Coach Stories
Antonio Ciano - "The Secret is the Shared Understanding"

In Italy, June 2025 will be remembered for that week Scutto and Bellandi became world champions.

OTP WJC 2025
Bellandi and Kanikovskiy Close Out Day 6

It has taken until the 6th day of individual competition for one of the 2024 Olympic or world champions ...

OTP WJC 2025
-100 kg: King Kanikovskiy Claims the Crown

Matvey Kanikovskiy (IJF) was in a different league from any of the others during the preliminary rounds. ...

OTP WJC 2025
-78 kg: Bellandi is the Only One!

An all-European final pitted 22-year-old Anna Monta Olek, never before present in a world championship ...