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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Born on June 1, 1994 in Mantes-la-Jolie (France), the young thirty-something isn’t the most talked-about judoka on the circuit, but he’s certainly someone who deserves to be. No direct family ties: our first two encounters date back to 2014. In spring in Lyon, between two doors during the French junior championships. Then in autumn in
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Born on April 2, 1979 in Harfleur, Frédéric Lecanu is the French and Jigoro Kano version of The Voice. Commentator, host and, above all, director of words, the Frenchman has been crisscrossing France since 2013 for the French team and a lofty idea of judo. Born at the exact intersection of the yokes of David
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Born on May 20 1989, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, this journalist with the daily Le Populaire du Centre has lived in Limoges since he was five. Respected for his soul-level coverage of local sport, he has the particularity of consistently highlighting two blind spots in French judo: provinces and disability. With the hindsight
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He’s this kind of shadow coming back from ages that most of the 20-years old people have even never heard about… We’ve met the last king of the U95kg category in his homeland of Poland. The interview was almost a week long, which was the appropriate time needed to try to talk about such a
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A family trip back to Slovenia, to the legendary Marjan Fabjan’s Judo Klub Z’Dezele Sankaku in Celje. – JudoAKD#004. A French version of this article is available here. Nine years have passed. Nine years since this April 2015 report, made just one week after returning from a trip to Scotland. Lost luggage
Born on January 7 1978, in Lyon, “Lolo” has been a pillar of the Dojo Olympic for two decades, a club in the third district of the capital of the Roman Gaul which, in 2023, has reached its personal Graal: a seventh place in the French senior team championships. The culmination of a long journey
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Born on April 14 1986, in the island of La Réunion, World University champion, European U23 runner-up and Lucie Décosse’s replacement at the Beijing Olympics, the U63kg was one of the many comets of French judo. For three years, which spanned from the Rotterdam World Championships in 2009 to the London Olympics in 2012, I
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Born on August 27, 1990 in Nice, France, Loïc Pietri is one of the most impressive names in French men’s judo. National, European and World champion in 2009 in his final junior season, he went on to become one of the international stalwarts in the U81 kg category, with six consecutive European and World podium
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