Laura Di Toma: I Fought With My Elbows
Despite a silver medal in New York at the first Women’s World Championships in 1980, there was no Olympic ...
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2020: The Passion of Judo
The least we can say is that 2020 was a special, even strange year, in which all our benchmarks were ...
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Women's Worlds: Happy Anniversary
For several weeks we have been talking about it and for several weeks the tension was mounting, but a ...
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Kaori Yamaguchi: I Was So Young
As we have just celebrated the first Women’s World Championships, held in New York in 1980, we still ...
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The Witness and The Beneficiary
In 1937 a dictatorship-style government was in power in Brazil, gaining strength and imposing rules that ...
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It's Time to Celebrate
The celebrations for the First Women’s World Judo Championships are fast approaching. For several weeks ...
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First Women's World Championships: The Trailer
On Novermber 28th, we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the First Women's World Championships in New ...
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Kerrye Katz
As Australia is in the Antipodes, this time, we will do things the other way around and we will start ...
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Celebrations Take Shape
The celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the first Women's World Championships, which took place ...
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Margherita De Cal: An Ordinary Trailblazer
All the interviews talk in the present tense because when these trailblazers take themselves back, for ...
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Jocelyne Triadou: The Rage to Win
With multiple medals from major international competitions, including five European titles, Jocelyne ...
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Peter Perazio: Pushing Fatigue to Dream Bigger
After an event and especially after a world championship, what we remember above all are the medalists, ...
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The Lady with a Secret
In 1972, being a woman and practising judo in Ecuador was frowned upon. Sexual liberation and the rights ...
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Rusty Kanakogi and Her Battle for Women’s Rights
By Andrea Sozzi - In late November 1980, in New York, at the incredible Madison Square Garden, in a ...
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Jane Bridge: The Survival Instinct
Born on 4th February 1960 in England, Jane Bridge is known for being among the first women in history ...
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The Spirit of the Samurai
We have put Rusty Kanokogi's fights firmly in the spotlight; a lady who was the instigator and organiser ...
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Mrs. K
Previously, we introduced Rusty Kanokogi through the words of her daughter, Jean. In order to complete ...
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Rusty: She was my Mother and the Mother of Equity
The celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the first Women's World Championship are approaching, since ...
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Marie-Paule Panza: On the Road to Transmission
Sitting comfortably by the fireside, on a rainy day in the heart of the Vosges mountains in Alsace, she ...
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The world is a richer place with women's judo
In November 2020, the International Judo Federation will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first ...
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