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After last week’s Grand Slam in Abu Dhabi, the next challenge for our IPPON GEAR athletes was the Oceanian Open in Perth, Australia. As this competition was giving Olympic qualification points equal to a Grand Prix, a high number of top athletes had found their way to Australia. Yet again, it was...
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The last Championships of this year took place in Russia last weekend as the u23 European Championships was held in Izhevsk. Many of our athletes travelled to Russia to seek glory and they achieved exactly that.
This weekend, the IJF World Tour moved to the United Arab Emirates for the traditional Abu Dhabi Judo Grand Sam, where 553 athletes from 95 different nations were battling it out for glory and important Olympic qualification points. Also, a high number of IPPON GEAR athletes made their way to the...
This weekend, the final and most important competition of the year for the Junior judo athletes took place in Marrakech, Morocco: the Junior Judo World Championships. After a season with a lot of great results for our Juniors, the expectations were high for this year’s World Championships.
Same as our Juniors picking up some big medals in Marrakech for the World Championship also, the seniors were in action this weekend as the EJU European Cup Malaga took place this weekend. It was a great weekend for our athletes and especially for our Czech team that picked up four medals.
Once again, our athletes travelled to an EJU European Judo Open, this time in Tallinn, Estonia. With a total of just 292 athletes, the categories were strong and multiple of the athletes of the World Tour competed at this event, too. For the IPPON GEAR team, it was yet another successful weekend.
This weekend, the Brazilian Judo Federation welcomed athletes from 55 different nations, to the capital of Brazil, for the Brasilia Grand slam. Brazil did not host a Grand Slam since 2012, but this week, athletes were again battling it out on Brazilian soil. From the IPPON GEAR team, three...
It was a big weekend for Luxembourg as we saw the first international EJU event being held in the country as the European Open took place this weekend. Even though, this was the first edition of the competition it was a strong one which saw a total of 354 competitors. A smaller IPPON GEAR...
10 years ago, the first ever edition of the Cadet World Judo Championships took place in Budapest, Hungary. This week, the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan was welcoming the 463 hopeful athletes from 61 different nations for the last highlight of the year: The Cadet World Championships.
After the Judo World Championships three weeks ago, the IJF World Circuit returned to the Grand Prix in Tashkent, Uzbekistan this weekend. It was a weekend full of great judo as some of our players that missed out on the podium at Worlds were eager to make it back this time. And they did just...
This weekend, one of the most important Junior competitions of the year took place in Vaanta, Finland: Namely the Junior European Judo Championships. The competition was a big success for our IPPON GEAR athletes, who managed to win a total of eight medals.
This weekend, it was time for the seniors to step back on the tatami. It happened in Bratislava, Slovakia, where the 2019 EJU Senior European Cup took place. It was a strong competition that saw the IPPON GEAR team come away with a total of 10 medals and a lot of other strong performances.