The World Judo Championships are the highest level of international judo competition, along with the Olympic judo competition. The championships are held once every year by the International Judo Federation, and qualified judoka compete in their respective categories as representatives of their home countries. Team competitions have also been held since 1994. The men's championships began in 1956, though the format and periodicity of the championships have changed over time. The last edition of the championships took place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in 2024.
Jung Sung-Sook is a South Korean judoka.
Teddy Pierre-Marie Riner is a French judoka. He has won eleven World Championships gold medals, the first and only judoka to do so, and five Olympic gold medals. He has also won five gold medals at the European Championships. Riner was a member of the Levallois Sporting Club before joining Paris Saint-Germain in August 2017.
Yoshiyuki Matsuoka is a retired judoka from Japan, who represented Japan at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Matsuoka won the gold medal in the men's half-lightweight division (–65 kg), after having defeated South Korea's Hwang Jung-Oh in the final by Seoi Nage. He trained under 4 time world champion Shozo Fujii (1971–1979).
Hwang Jung-oh is a retired judoka from South Korea, who represented South Korea at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There he won the silver medal in the men's half-lightweight division (–65 kg), after having been defeated by Seoi nage in the final match. He is also the founder of Hwang's Martial Arts.
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. Israel became a member of the European Olympic Committees (EOC) in 1994. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Israel won six olympic medals, the most up until this point, breaking Israel's record for olympic medals per olympics.
Jung Sun-Yong is a female South Korean judoka.
Kim Mi-Jung is a female South Korean retired judoka. She was a shot putter in high school but changed to be a judoka at the age of 17, and in a year Kim was selected to be a member of the South Korean national judo team in 1989.
Jung Bu-kyung is a South Korean judoka and professional mixed martial artist.
Miss Korea is a national beauty pageant in South Korea. The reigning Miss Korea is Choi Chae-won who was crowned on October 10, 2023.
Chung Jung-yeon is a South Korean judoka who competes in the women's 48 kg category. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she was defeated in the second round.
Joung Da-woon is a South Korean judoka. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed in the Women's 63 kg, but was defeated in the semifinals. She beat Ramila Yusubova and Yoshie Ueno before losing to Xu Lili. Because Xu reached the final Joung was entered into the repechage, where she lost her bronze medal match to Gévrise Émane.
Hwang Ye-Sul is South Korean judoka. She competed in the 70 kg event in judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she reached the semifinals. However, Ye-Sul lost to Lucie Décosse and lost the bronze medal match to Edith Bosch.
Dr. Champ (Korean: 닥터챔프) is a 2010 South Korean television series about a doctor caught in a love triangle between a judo athlete and a crippled doctor who was once a speed-skating star.
Neşe Şensoy Yıldız is a Turkish judoka, who competed in the women's extra-lightweight category. She held two Turkish senior titles in her own division, and picked up a total of twenty medals in her career, including a gold from the 2001 Mediterranean Games in Tunis, Tunisia, a silver from the 2006 European Judo Championships in Tampere, Finland, and a bronze from the 2003 World Judo Championships in Osaka, Japan. Yildiz represented her nation Turkey in two editions of the Olympic Games, where she failed to reach the quarterfinals in the 48-kg division. Throughout most of her sporting career, Yildiz trained for Ordu Judo Ihtisas Club in her native Istanbul under head coach and sensei Haldun Efemgil.
Ye Gue-rin is a South Korean judoka, who competed in the women's extra-lightweight category. She finished seventh in the 48-kg division at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also picked up a bronze at the 2008 East Asian Judo Championships in Taipei, Taiwan.
Events from the year 1989 in South Korea.
Ok Ye-rin is a South Korean child actress. She made her acting debut in 2017, since then, she has appeared in number of films and television series. She is known for her various roles as child actor as: My Secret Terrius (2018) and Itaewon Class (2020). She has acted in films also such as: Champion and Man of Men (2018) among others. In 2022 she appeared in romantic TV series Twenty-Five Twenty-One.
Judo competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris took place from 27 July to 3 August at Grand Palais Éphémère in Champ de Mars. The number of judokas competing across fourteen weight categories at these Games has been reduced from 393 in Tokyo 2020 to 372, with an equal distribution between men and women.
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