France Has a New Men's Head Coach!
Daniel Fernandes (FRA) could be found all weekend around the warm-up mat or in the athletes’ tribune ...
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IJF Awards: The Winners
2024, an Olympic year, was unforgettable for judo, with breathtaking performances, historic moments and ...
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The Best Way to Launch the Season
The Paris Grand Slam concluded today at the Accor Arena in Bercy in the most beautiful way. The last ...
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+100 kg: Tasoev Takes the Last Gold of the 2025 Edition
In the last final of the 2025 Paris Grand Slam Seungyob Lee (KOR), a relative unknown, faced 2023 world ...
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+78 kg: Fontaine Wins With a Day of Dynamic Judo
The heavyweight women’s category offered some great judo on day two of the 2025 Paris Grand Slam. There ...
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-100 kg: Dzhafar Kostoev (UAE) Throws His Way to Gold in Paris
With Korrel, Adamian and Fonseca all unable to reach the final, this was certainly a day of surprises ...
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-78 kg: Sampaio is Overjoyed to Win Her First Grand Slam Gold
This category always has a huge interest for the French. Aside from the 2011 world champion, 34-year ...
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-90 kg: Jonghoon Kim Sprints Up the World Ranking List
The final of this exciting and dynamic category saw 2023 world champion Luka Maisuradze (GEO) face a ...
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-70 kg: Tsunoda Roustant Claims Her Second Paris Title
The final of the -70 kg women’s category between the current Tokyo Grand Slam winner, Mayu Honda (JPN) ...
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-81: Canada leads the Charge on Day 2 in Paris
The first category of the second and final day of competition in Paris was the men’s -81 kg division. ...
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Day Two at the Paris Grand Slam is Raising the Roof of the Accor Arena
At the beginning of the second and final day of the 2025 Paris Grand Slam, the two nations at the top ...
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Keiji Suzuki is Happy With the First International Experience of the Year
There is a large Japanese team in Paris but several of the names are not well known. The top team is ...
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Martha Fawaz: "I did it!"
Twenty-two year old Martha Fawaz first fought in Paris in 2021 while still a teenager. She placed 7th ...
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Paris Grans Slam: Paris Grand Slam: A Great Judo Festival
We were eagerly awaiting it! As at the beginning of each season, the first day of the Paris Grand Slam ...
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-63 kg: Kaju (JPN) Takes Second Grand Slam Gold in a Row
Going into the -63 kg medal contests, France topped the medal table ahead of Japan by just two bronze ...
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-73 kg: Ahadov is Thrilled to Win in Paris for the First Time
The -73 kg final was billed to be a contest full of powerful judo, two experts in the use of momentum ...
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-57 kg: Fawaz Takes an Emotional Gold
In the final Martha Fawaz was flying the host’s flag while Timna Nelson Levy arrived after a fantastic ...
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-66 kg: Pashayev (AZE) Wins His First Grand Slam Gold
As everyone around the world gets used to the new rules, we can see that in Paris the transition into ...
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-52 kg: An All-Japanese Final
This third category of the day was already guaranteed to provide Japan with their 4th and 5th medals ...
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-60 kg: The French Rivalry Sends Valadier Picard to the Top Spot
Romain Valadier Picard had proven himself to be the best -60 kg Frenchman on the day already, reaching ...
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-48 kg: The First Grand Slam Gold of 2025 Goes to Japan
After a preliminary block that went at a blistering pace, the medal contests were decided by skill, by ...
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And So it Begins...
There is nothing quite like the countdown into the first contests of the Paris Grand Slam. The crowd ...
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A New Head Women’s Coach for France: Lucie Decosse
At the end of each Olympic cycle there is an inevitable shuffling of roles, restructuring of teams and ...
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A New Era
The Paris Grand Slam has begun. As every year, it attracts thousands of spectators who already filled ...
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Paris Opens the Season and the Cycle
The Paris Grand Slam not only opens this season for the IJF World Judo Tour but it also opens the elite ...
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Three Things to Look Out For at the 2025 Paris Grand Slam
Our last visit to the French capital was much less than a year ago as the most prestigious liaison of ...
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