New Delhi: Indian judokas bagged two silver and three bronze in the Asian Youth and Junior Championships held in Chinese Taipei.
In the Youth Championships, Vijay Kumar Yadav and Besto Rani Devi won a silver each in boys' 60kg and girls' 48kg categories respectively.
Preety and Mongjam Kabita Devi won a bronze each in gilrs' 40kg and 44kg respectively in the September 28-30 event. Khaidem Rashi Devi bagged a bronze in 70kg category in the junior section.
Indian judokas had won one gold, four silver and two bronze in the Asian Youth and Junior Championships in Lebanon last year....
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05:23 PM, Oct 01, 2012
London: Kim Jae-bum of South Korea won the Olympic gold medal on Tuesday in the men's 81-kilogram category. Kim defeated Ole Bischof of Germany in the final. Kim threw Bischof twice and was often on the attack, even when both were locked in grappling techniques on the floor. The 27-year-old Kim won a silver at the Beijing Games and is the current world champion. The bronze medals were won by...
04:36 PM, Aug 08, 2012
London: Urska Zolnir of Slovenia won the women's 63K Olympic judo gold medal on Tuesday. Zolnir defeated Xu Lili of China in a combative final where both fighters were almost constantly on the offensive. She managed to throw Xu once in the match's first minute, which was ultimately enough to win. Zolnir, 31, was one of the oldest competitors in the division. She won a bronze at the Athens Games...
12:49 AM, Aug 01, 2012
London: Kim Jae-bum of South Korea won the Olympic gold medal on Tuesday in the men's 81-kilogram category. Kim defeated Ole Bischof of Germany in the final. Kim threw Bischof twice and was often on the attack, even when both were locked in grappling techniques on the floor. The 27-year-old Kim won a silver at the Beijing Games and is the current world champion. The bronze medals were won by...
12:14 AM, Aug 01, 2012
London: India's medal hopes in Judo came crashing down, when judoka Garima Choudhary was knocked out of the women's 63 kg category elimination round. Facing Japan's Yoshie Ueno, she was beaten in only 1.21 minutes. Japan continued their good run when Kaori Matsumoto won a gold medal in Judo on Monday in the 57-kg category along with two silver medals and one bronze in Judo. (More to follow) ...
03:53 PM, Jul 31, 2012
London: An Kae Um won North Korea's first Olympic gold medal at London Games on Sunday in the women's judo 52-kilogram category. The 20-year-old An defeated Acosta Bermoy of Cuba in the final in a match that went into overtime. An won in the final minutes with a decisive throw that landed Bermoy on her back. An won silver at the Beijing Games four years ago. Earlier in the day,...
10:49 PM, Jul 29, 2012
London: Lasha Shavdatuashvili of Georgia won an Olympic judo gold medal on Sunday in the men's 66-kilogram category. The 20-year-old Shavdatuashvili defeated Miklos Ungvari of Hungary in a tense final. Shavdatuashvili managed to score with a throw after sweeping his opponent's foot in the first few minutes of the match. It is Shavdatuashvili's first Olympic medal. Shavdatuashvili defeated one of the favorites, Masashi Ebinuma of Japan, in the semifinals with...
10:17 PM, Jul 29, 2012
London: In the men's 60-kilogram division, Russian Arsen Galstyan surprised spectators and opponents alike when he took the gold. Galstyan defeated the category's two favorites to win the medal: top-ranked Uzbeki fighter Rishod Sobirov in the semi-final, and Japanese judoka Hiroaki Hiroaka in the final. It took less than a minute for Galstyan, 23, to score a match-ending ippon over Hiroaka. It was the first Olympic medal for the Russian,...
09:59 PM, Jul 28, 2012
London: Sarah Menezes of Brazil won the women's 48-kilogram Olympic judo gold medal on Saturday. The second-ranked Menezes beat defending Olympic champion Alina Dumitru of Romania in a final that had both fighters on the defensive. Menezes frequently had her hands up like a boxer as both struggled to get a dominant grip, without much success until the last minute of the match. After failing to throw Dumitru off balance...
09:35 PM, Jul 28, 2012
New Delhi: Going by statistics, it will be very difficult for India's lone judoka Garima Chaudhary to even end up with a top-five finish leave alone a medal at the London Olympics. But in contact sports, there are times when lesser known individuals have punched above their weight to spring surprises and the 22-year-old Meerut girl will try to do the same in the 63kg weight category. Not many people,...
12:57 PM, Jul 15, 2012
New Delhi: Little known Garima Chaudhary from Meerut, the sole judoka representing India at the London Olympics, feels winning a gold medal is not a far-fetched dream for her. The 22-year-old qualified for the Olympics in the 63 kg weight category, based on the latest rankings released by International Judo Federation (IJF) May 6. Garima, who is ranked 88th in the world, secured the continental quota spot along with Turkmenistan's...
09:35 AM, Jul 12, 2012
Taichung: Osama bin Laden stood out not just because of his height but because of his serious, conservative demeanour, according to a Taiwan man who says the al Qaeda leader, killed by US troops on Monday, was a student in his judo classes in Saudi Arabia. Jimmy Wu, a top Taiwan judo coach, told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of a tournament in the central city of Taichung...
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04:48 PM, Aug 19, 2008
In men's 100kg Japan's Satoshi Ishii defeated Abdullo Tangriev of Uzbekistan to win gold. ...
05:56 PM, Aug 15, 2008
At Athens, Japan won eight out of 14 gold medals, but in Beijing they have only three titles. ...
10:40 AM, Aug 15, 2008
He was defeated by Mongolia's Naidan Tuvshinbayar with a tackle throw (morote-gari). ...
04:26 PM, Aug 14, 2008
The 20-year-old took just 13 seconds to throw world champion Wang Ki Chun. ...
11:16 AM, Aug 12, 2008
She won from a division that saw all its leading lights fall by the wayside early on. ...
04:55 PM, Aug 11, 2008
European champion Dumitru dominated the final against Yanet Bermoy. ...
05:18 PM, Aug 09, 2008
