Guastalla is a town and comune in the province of Reggio Emilia in Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Giorgi Vazagashvili is a Georgian judoka. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he won a bronze medal in the men's Half Lightweight (–66 kg) category, together with Girolamo Giovinazzo of Italy. Vazagashvili was a silver medalist at the Tokyo 1995 World Championships, and a bronze medalist at Hamilton 1993 and Paris 1997. Two times European champion in Hague 1996 and Oostende 1997, silver medalist in Birmingham 1995 and bronze medalist in Bratislava 1999. He is World Junior Champion in Cairo 1994, in final he won against Tadahiro Nomura. European Junior Champion in Arnhem 1993. Vazagashvili is champion of international tournament in Tbilisi 1992, 1993, Moscow 1993, 1997, Prague 1996, Munich 1997, Warsaw 2000, bronze medalist in Paris 1995, bronze medalist Matsutaro Shoriki Cup Tokyo 1998.
Tadahiro Nomura is a Japanese judoka. He is the only judoka in the world who has won three individual Olympic gold medals in a row, all in the extra lightweight (–60 kg) division.
Brian Jacks is a British judoka who won Britain's first medal at a World Championships taking a bronze in Salt Lake City 1967, and gained a second bronze at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Hüseyin Özkan, née Huseyn Delimbekovich Bisultanov, is a Turkish judoka. At the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia, he won the gold medal in the men's Half Lightweight (–66 kg) category. He became the first judoka to win an Olympics gold medal for Turkey. He is a member of the İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi S.K.
Giuseppe Maddaloni is an Italian judoka. He was born in Naples.
Emanuela Pierantozzi is an Italian judoka.
Ylenia Scapin is an Italian judoka.
Udo Quellmalz, known as Quelle, is a German judoka. He competed in judo at the Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal in 1992 and a gold medal in 1996. He also won the World Judo Championships in 1991 and 1995. Quellmalz was appointed head coach of the Flemish Judo Federation in 2022. He has previously directed the British judo team and served as a coach for the Austrian and Qatari teams.
Frank Möller is a German judoka. He won a bronze medal in the heavyweight (+100 kg) division at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Lucia Morico is an Italian judoka.
Maria Pekli is an Australian judoka of Hungarian descent. She was Australian Champion in the –57 kg division for seven consecutive years, between 1997 and 2003.
Ilias Iliadis is a Georgian-born Greek judoka. He was named the 2014 Greek Male Athlete of the Year.
Waldemar Legień is a Polish retired judoka. He won two Olympic gold medals in different weight classes, in 1988 and 1992. He is also the first person to win back-to-back two Olympic gold medals in Judo.
Urška Žolnir is a Slovenian politician and a retired judoka. She's a member of Judo Club Sankaku Celje.
Ahn Byeong-keun is a retired judoka from South Korea, who represented South Korea at the 1984 Summer Olympics. There he claimed the gold medal in the men's lightweight division (–71 kg) by defeating Italy's Ezio Gamba in the final. Ahn participated at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a coach.
Angelo Parisi is a French judoka and olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the heavyweight division at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. At his Olympic debut in 1972 he represented Great Britain. Parisi holds the 8th dan degree.
Melvin Méndez Acevedo is a Puerto Rican judoka who competed in the men's half-lightweight category. He picked up a bronze medal in the 66-kg division at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez, attained a fifth-place finish at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and represented his nation Puerto Rico in three editions of the Olympic Games.
Fabio Basile is an Italian judoka.
Matteo Marconcini is an Italian judoka. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the –81 kg category, and lost the bronze medal match to Sergiu Toma.
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