Since two years, our federation has been organizing more than 35 events per year: World Championships, World Masters, Grand Slams and Grand Prix, plus World Cups, which are organized at a continental level. All together, those events are part of the World Judo Tour that gives a fantastic visibility to judo, throughout the year.

During two days, representatives from the different organizing committees exchanged ideas and…

Novenber 16, 2010 Oceania Judo Union

Last weekend the South Pacific island paradise of Samoa welcomed judoka from around the world to take part in the World Cup Olympic qualifier in its capitol Apia.

It's still a flight of over five hours from Sydney to Apia but at least Ivo dos Santos (AUS) and several of his team mates have been able to make the most of having a world cup within reasonable…

Team USA Wins 12 Medals at the OJU World Cup in Samoa

Nicole Jomantas November 15, 2010

Published: Monday, November 15, 2010

Madison Geores, a seventh grader at Woodrow Wilson Middle School and member of the Blue Dragon Judo Club, swept two divisions and earned two gold medals in competition Sunday.



She competed in her natural 11- and 12-year-old division in Danvers, Mass., then took on challengers in the 13- to 16-year-old division as well.



Madison has been a judo student of Sensei Pam Hinkle, a Middletown…

AFP, Nov 15, 2010, 09.13am IST…

Mon Nov 15, 2010 6:7AM

2010/11/15 | 12:53 pm | in EJU, IJF

Last weekend saw seven European fighters from four European nations travel the 16,000 kilometers to take part in the World Cup Olympic…

THE Embassy of Japan in Tanzania in collaboration with Judo Associations in the Mainland and Zanzibar will hold a judo demonstration and an open category tournament dubbed 'Japan Judo Cup 2010'at the Don Bosco Youth Centre in Dar es Salaam on Monday afternoon.

2010/11/14 21:23 KST

(Asian Games) First inter-Korean judo match ends in vain .

The women's under-70kg judo winner, Hwang Ye-sul of South Korea, stands on the podium for the playing of her national anthem, while North Korean silver medalist Sol Gyong lowers her head at the Guangzhou Asian Games on Nov. 14. (Yonhap).

By Kim Boram

GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 14 (Yonhap) -- The tightened political situation between South…

November 15, 2010

Kim Jae-bum defeats Uzbeki to win his first Asiad gold

Kim Jae-bum won a gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, yesterday, enhancing the national judo team’s already impressive start.



The 25-year-old won his first Asian Games gold by defeating Shokir Muminov of Uzbekistan by ippon, the decisive point that wins a match, in the men’s under-81…

Updated at: 1715 PST, Sunday, November 14, 2010

Sunday 14th November, 06:58 PM JST

Yoshie Ueno took the women’s 63 kg

GUANGZHOU, China —

Takashi Ono opened Japan’s men’s judo team’s gold medal account with victory in the men’s 90-kg final while Yoshie Ueno took the women’s 63 kg title at the Asian Games on Sunday.

Ono beat Uzbekistan’s Dilshod Choriev with an ippon in the final to get…

South Korea's Kim Jae Bum, right, celebrates after defeating Uzbekistan's Sholir Muminov in their gold medal match of the men's judo -81kg competition at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010.…

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Takashi Ono of Japan celebrates winning the gold medal in the men's judo 90kg final at the Huagong Gymnasium during day two of the 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 2010 on November 14, 2010 in Guangzhou, China.

2010/11/14 | 03:49 pm | in EJU

At the last day of the European Cup in Marbella Spain won all gold medals in the women’s category. In the men’s category Dmitri Turashvili (GEO) won the O100kg category in the congress palace. In the final he defeated Icelandic Thormodur Jonsson.



The women’s U63kg also had three different…

2010/11/13 | 08:11 pm | in EJU

Spain took 5 out of 7 gold medals at the European Cup in Marbella. Portugal and Russia took the two other titles.

The sunny Marbella was the first host of a Spanish European Cup. Spain dominated not only the gold positions but also won 22 of 28 medals today. In a modest…