Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Derek Sua | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Samoan | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | [1] | 29 December 1987||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Judoka | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 100+ kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||
Country | Samoa | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Judo | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Olympics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||||||||
Profile at external databases | |||||||||||||||||||||
JudoInside.com | 61464 |
Nanai Derek Sua (born 29 December 1987) is a Samoan judoka who has represented Samoa at the Pacific Games, Commonwealth Games, and Olympic Games.
He competed in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, but did not advance. [1]
He was awarded with a wild card for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the men's +100 kg, where he was eliminated by Abdullo Tangriev in the second round. [2] [3] [4]
He won a gold medal at the 2017 OJU Senior Championships in Nukuʻalofa, Tonga. [5] He won bronze at the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia.
Kate Louise Howey is a former elite British judoka. She remains the only British woman to have won two Olympic judo medals and shares with fellow Olympic medalist Karina Bryant the record of being the only British judoka to have competed at four Olympic Games.
Euan Michael BurtonMBE is a Scottish judoka.
Kerrith Brown is a retired judoka from the United Kingdom and President of the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF).
Israel has competed at the Olympic Games as a nation since 1952. Its National Olympic Committee was formed in 1933, during the British Mandate of Palestine. Israel has sent a team to each Summer Olympic Games since 1952, and to each Winter Olympic Games since 1994. The country became a member of the European Olympic Committees (EOC) in 1994.
Colin Oates is an English former Judoka.
Sarah Clark is a British judoka, who has competed at three Olympic Games.
Sally Conway is a Scottish retired judoka who competed for Team GB in the 2012 and the 2016 Rio Olympics in the women's 70 kg judo event. Conway won a bronze medal in the 2016 Olympics. She competed for Scotland at women's 70 kg judo event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she won a bronze medal.
Darcina Manuel is a New Zealand judoka. She competed in the Women's 57 kg event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a bronze medal.
Shah Hussain Shah is a Pakistani judoka. Shah competes in the men's -100 kg division. As of July 2014, he is based in Japan. Shah Hussain received the honour to bear Pakistan flag at Rio Olympics. Shah represented Pakistan in 2018 Asian Games where he won a bronze medal in -100 kg division.
Thomas David Reed is a British judoka.
Natalie Powell is a Welsh judoka. She competed for Wales in the women's 78 kg event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a gold medal.
Vaipava Nevo Ioane is a Samoan weightlifter. He competed in the men's 62 kg event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won a bronze medal. He represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard is a Canadian judoka who competes in the women's 63 kg category. Beauchemin-Pinard won a bronze medal in the 63 kg weight class at the 2020 Summer Olympics, making her the second Canadian woman to win a medal in judo at the Summer Olympics. She has been ranked in the top 10 of the world in her weight category.
Or "Ori" Sasson is a retired Israeli Olympic judoka. He won a bronze medal in the +100 kg category at the 2016 Summer Olympics and another one at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He is the second of two Israelis to win two Olympic medals.
Samoa competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's ninth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympic Games, although it had previously competed in four editions under the name Western Samoa.
Amy Meyer is an Australian judoka. She won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the women's 48 kg division. She has also earned a bronze medal in World Cup Competition.
Diane Bell is a British former judoka. She won the 56–61 kg event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, but at the time women's judo was then still a demonstration sport, so unlike the men Bell did not enter the list of Olympic medalists in judo. She also won two World Judo Championships, a Commonwealth Games gold and three European Judo Championships.
Christa Deguchi is a Canadian judoka.
Yang Yung-wei is a Taiwanese Paiwan judoka. He is the current silver Olympic medalist in the extra lightweight event. He also won one of the bronze medals in the men's 60 kg event at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Peniamina Percival is a judoka from Samoa. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in the Judo – Men's 81 kg. His coach at the olympics was his brother Iosefa Percival. He trains at a local Dojo in Osaka and Tenri University judo club.