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OTP WJC 2025
How a Champion Behaves

Almost all of the top ranked judoka in the world have travelled to Budapest for the OTP Bank World Judo ...

OTP WJC 2025
Judo Delivers a Message of Friendship, Unity and Peace

The opening ceremony of the OTP Bank World Judo Championships 2025 took place today in the Papp Laszlo ...

OTP WJC 2025
-52 kg: Uta Abe Smiles for Her Fifth World Title

The women’s final on day 2 of the OTP Bank World Judo Championships was fought between two giants of ...

OTP WJC 2025
-66 kg: Takeoka Defies Predictions to Become World Champion

The final of the -66 kg category in Budapest was more one-way than Nurali Emomali may have liked.

OTP WJC 2025
Day 2 - the Preliminaries

The anomaly at -52 kg had the gaze of everyone in the arena and online; Uta Abe, having exited the Olympic ...

Athlete Stories
Ryuju Nagayama - "I Have More Room to Grow, So, I Will Do Better"

Ryuju Nagayama has had excellent results throughout his career from grand slam golds to a junior world ...

OTP WJC 2025
Yolk Kazirbyek: An Inspired Judoka

Yolk Kazirbyek's family lives near Darkhan city, the capital of the Darkhan-Uul Province in northern ...

Athlete Stories
Szabina Szeleczki - "I’m Just Happy With the Judo That I Did"

Having a world championships at home is such a huge driver for a national team, for the judoka and for ...

OTP WJC 2025
Two New World Champions on the Opening Day in Budapest

It already feels as though Paris was a long time ago and the new era is well and truly under construction. ...

OTP WJC 2025
-48 kg: Super Scutto Stuns Spectators

The final of the lightest women’s category of the 2025 OTP Bank World Judo Championships was bound ...

OTP WJC 2025
-60 kg: Nagayama, Unbeatable in Budapest, no Matter How Hard They Tried

A France-Japan final is something we can expect in one category or another, when all the big hitters ...

OTP WJC 2025
-60 kg: A Preliminary Session to Savour

There were so many cheers and gasps from the spectators today, inside the Papp László Arena, and each ...