Born on May 7, 1988 in Bolintin-Vale (Romania), Andreea Chitu moved from the U57kg to the U52kg category at the age of 23. A rare decision, as most category changes during a career are generally made to the higher one, in order to relieve the body after years of cutting weight. A choice that led […]
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Born on July 20, 2002 in Paris (France), Romain Valadier-Picard is European champion and vice-World cadet champion in 2019, European junior champion in 2021, double World junior medalist in 2021 and 2022 and already in the top 3 of French seniors in the U60kg category when, in the fall of 2023, this logbook begins. A
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Born on 28 September 1994 in Versailles (France), Benjamin Axus has won seven individual medals at the French senior championships to date, including three titles. A European junior champion in 2014, the U73kg player from AJA Paris XX was a member of the French team at the 2017, 2018 and 2022 World Championships. Following a randori
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[FRA – Cet article est une reprise de la version anglaise originale d’un papier publié en juillet 2019 dans le bimestriel français L’Esprit du judo. Cette version anglaise a été mise en ligne le même mois dans l’ancienne version du site Internet de l’EDJ et reprise par le site JudoInside, mais n’était plus visible depuis la
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Born on 30 May, 1970 in Venendaal (Netherlands), Hans Van Essen started judo ten kilometers from where he now lives. He is the architect of the JudoInside database, a kind of Kodokan for judo statistics enthusiasts, and the number one fact-checking reflex of most journalists called upon to chronicle this environment. With Paris 2024 just
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Born on February 2, 1957 in Málaga (Spain), Paco Lozano Martín won his first Kodak camera in a competition when he was 12, and took up judo a year later in Nyon (Switzerland) – a country where he grew up until he was 16. A third-dan black belt, husband and father of judokas, he taught
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Née le 8 janvier 1980 à Meerane, en Allemagne de l’Est, Annett Böhm a été médaillée de bronze des -70 kg aux Jeux olympiques d’Athènes en 2004 (5e en 2008 à Pékin) et médaillée de bronze aux championnats du monde d’Osaka en 2003 (5e au Caire en 2005). Elle a combattu avec la plupart des
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London, July 31, 2012. Two hours before entering into her second Olympics, Gévrise Emane has a panick attack. How did the French woman managed to deal with this mental situation behind closed doors, and still ended with bronze around her neck? Let’s turn back on one of these endless days when it’s only at nightfall
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Born on January 8, 1980 in Meerane, East Germany, Annett Böhm was Olympic bronze medallist of the U70kg category in Athens 2004 (5th in Beijing 2008) and World bronze medallist in Osaka 2003 (5th in Cairo 2005). She used to fight with most of the big names of her generation: Gévrise Emane, Edith Bosch, Ulla
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