Category: judo

Canada’s Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard Earns World Judo Silver

October 10, 2022
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Canada’s Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard earned a silver medal in the world judo championship Sunday. The 28-year-old from Montreal, who was a bronze medallist in last summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, lost to Japan’s Megumi Horikawa in the women’s 63-kilogram final in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The result had Beauchemin-Pinard contemplating the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. “When I…

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Nagase Triumphs in -81kg Judo to Continue Japanese Gold Rush

July 27, 2021
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TOKYO—Japan’s Takanori Nagase won the men’s -81kg judo gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics by beating Saeid Mollaei of Mongolia in the final, extending the gold rush by Japanese judokas. Rio bronze medallist Nagase’s victory marked a fifth judo gold medal for hosts Japan at the Games, edging them closer to their previous Olympic record…

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