France's Luka Mkheidze celebrates after defeating Turkey's Salih Yildiz during their men -60 kg semifinal match in team judo competition at Champ-de-Mars Arena during the 2024 Summer Olympics ...

Kawaishi also taught judo in South America and England, and he arrived in France in October 1935. He began working at a judo club as a technical adviser and embarked on managing one as well.

France won more medals in judo (eight) than any other sport at the Tokyo Olympics. Agbégnénou was the lone French athlete across all sports to win multiple golds in Tokyo, taking the 63kg title and ...

Paris 2024 Olympics - Judo - Men +100 kg Final - Champ-de-Mars Arena, Paris, France - August 02, 2024. Teddy Riner of France reacts with his son Eden Riner after winning Minjong Kim of South Korea.

PARIS : France's Sarah-Leonie Cysique and Joan-Benjamin Gaba beat Japanese opponents to reach judo semi-finals at the Paris Olympics on Monday at Champs-de-Mars Arena.Cysique, a silver medallist ...

PARIS : France's triple Olympic gold medallist Teddy Riner won an eighth Paris Grand Slam title on Sunday after defeating South Korean Kim Minjong by o-uchi-gari in the men's +100kg final, six ...

“In France, judo is more than a sport. It’s a part of life,” Rouge tells CNN. “We have 5,700 clubs in our country and we are present in all of the villages and towns. We are everywhere.” ...

Yet judo in the land of France is also, and perhaps above all, a method of education, based on Japanese values as much as on the philosophy of human rights.

PARIS - France's Sarah-Leonie Cysique and Joan-Benjamin Gaba beat Japanese opponents to reach judo semi-finals at the Paris Olympics on Monday at Champs-de-Mars Arena. Read more at straitstimes.com.

French Judo Federation President Jean-Luc Rouge was the country’s first ever world champion, triumphing in the -93kg weight category back in 1975. “In France, judo is more than a sport.