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Abu Dhabi WC 2024
Abu Dhabi Crowns Three Brand New Champions on Day 1

The flagship event of the IJF World Judo Tour 2024, the Abu Dhabi World Championships has well and truly ...

Abu Dhabi Worlds 2024
Technical Analysis, Day 1: Ne-Waza and the Grit to Fight to the End

IJF Head Referee Director Florin Daniel Lascau heads up the commission looking after all refereeing decisions ...

Abu Dhabi WC 2024
-52 kg: Odette Giuffrida on Top of the World

As the day began, pole position was occupied by Diyora Keldiyorova (UZB), an increasingly dangerous fighter ...

Abu Dhabi WC 2024
-60kg: Sardalashvili Becomes Georgia's Youngest World Champion

In the -60kg category at the Abu Dhabi World Championships 2024, the stage was set for Japan’s Ryuju ...

Abu Dhabi WC 2024
-48 kg: Bavuudorj Wins With Power and Impeccable Timing

The day one preview pointed to Assunta Scutto as the category leader, a judoka whom has set the tatami ...

Para-Judo
Judo Gave Me a Reason To Live

In March 2022, Vitaly Gligor was walking down Decebal Street in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova.

Abu Dhabi WC 2024
Nagayama Will Have to Wait Even Longer for First World Title

Ryuju Nagayama is the sole member of the Japanese contingent at the Abu Dhabi World Championships 2024 ...

Abu Dhabi WC 2024
Four Things to Look Out for on Day 1 #JudoWorlds

There is no shortage of excitement on day one in Abu Dhabi.

Abu Dhabi WC 2024
Abu Dhabi Celebrates its 25-Year-Silver-Jubilee with the World Championships

We have been waiting for this moment for several months, since the United Arab Emirates took on the organisation ...

The Olympic Champion Series
The Olympic Champions (37): Marie-Claire Restoux (FRA)

Interviewing an Olympic champion is something special and always delivers thought-provoking words and ...

Judo for Refugees
1 in 100 Million

At Rio 2016, the first Refugee Olympic Team created by the International Olympic Committee represented ...

Qasaqstan Barysy GS
Technical Analysis, Day 3: Building a Strategy Versus Collecting Points

IJF and EJU photographer Gabi Juan has been photographing judo since 2007 but has spent his life in judo, ...