Marcel Medved is a judoka from Slovenia who competed at -80kg and +93kg and took bronze at the 1964 Slovenian Championships Celje. He also took silver at the 1965 Slovenian Junior Championships ...

Judoka Akira Inada of Japan won gold at the All Japan Judo Championships Fukuoka in 1966 in the category U70kg.

Judo shapes lives long after the final contest. In this series, JudoInside follows former champions into their second careers, from doctors and professors to entrepreneurs, broadcasters and ...

Inal Tasoev reached the +100kg final in Lausanne, Uzbekistan secured both U90kg final places and France guaranteed +78kg gold through Romane Dicko and ...

Miriam Butkereit continued her impressive 2026 season by winning U70kg gold at the Lausanne Grand Slam, defeating German teammate Giovanna Scoccimarro in a tactical final that underlined Germany’s ...

Exactly 54 years after Paul Barth won an Olympic bronze medal in Munich, German judo is mourning one of the leading figures of its early Olympic generation. On 1 September 1972, Barth stepped on to ...

Lausanne will host the 2028 World Judo Championships, placing Switzerland at the centre of international judo only weeks before the Los Angeles Olympic Games. The agreement was signed on Saturday ...

Angelika Szymanska claimed U63kg gold at the Lausanne Grand Slam after a remarkable day in which she defeated her childhood idol Clarisse Agbegnenou before overcoming Manon Deketer in the final. The ...

More than half a century after Lausanne staged one of the most remarkable displays of Japanese supremacy in World Championship history, the world’s best judoka are coming back. Switzerland has been ...

Ilia Sulamanidze confirmed his position among the leading U100kg judoka in the world by defeating Dutchman Simeon Catharina in the final of the Lausanne Grand Slam. A single yuko separated the two, ...

Kairi Kentoku claimed the first Grand Slam title of his career in Lausanne, defeating compatriot Shinsei Hattori with a superb uchi mata after a long golden score battle in an all Japanese U66kg final ...

Abylaikhan Zhubanazar captured the U81kg title at the Ecole Mont-Olivet Lausanne Grand Slam with a perfectly timed de ashi barai in the closing stages of his final against Uzbekistan’s Arslonbek ...