This weekend, the city of Budapest was hosting the traditional Budapest Judo Grand Prix. Usually, a very strong competition and as the end of the Olympic qualification is coming closer and closer, this year was no exception - The line up was packed with top athletes.

This weekend, the Judo World Tour had moved to Canada, for the first ever edition of the Montreal Grand Prix, where athletes from 50 different nations were battling it out on the hunt for Olympic qualification points.

While the seniors traveled to Canada, the Juniors went to Sarajevo, Bosnia, for the EJU European Junior Cup 2019. The youngsters showed good progress and picked up a lot of medals at the competition.

The European Games 2019 are the 2nd edition and took place in Belarus in Minsk. The judo competition took place from the 22-25th of June starting with three tremendous individual days and ending with the exciting mixed teams. The Ippon Gear had a lot of amazing judoka qualified for the Games...

While the European Games took place in Minsk this weekend, the Ippon Gear Juniors were in action at the traditional Junior European Cup in Paks, Hungary, where 413 athletes from 28 different nations were represented.

The Junior World Tour moved to the small city of Leibnitz in Austria for the 2019 edition of the Junior European Judo Cup. As usual, it was a huge competition with many competitors from all around the world. It was highly competitive as the National Teams of Japan, Brazil and Canada traveled the...

This weekend, another European Open took place, this time in Cluj-Napoca in Romania, where 350 athletes from 29 nations were battling it out. From the IPPON GEAR team, six athletes managed to pick up a medal.

This weekend, the Senior European Judo Cup Tour had moved to Slovenia for the traditional Celje European cup. This European cup is known to be one of the toughest Senior European Cups and this year was no exception with 230 athletes from 24 different nations.

A small IPPON GEAR team attended the Grand Prix Hohhot 2019 this weekend. The Grand Prix held in China was the first competition in the 100 % qualification for the Olympic Games. Even though, we were a small team competing there we definitely left an impression coming home with 4 medals and 2...

This weekend, the senior European Judo Cup tour had come to Russia, where the city of Orenburg was hosting their annual European Cup. A small group of fighters from the IPPON GEAR team was represented, but managed to take home five medals. Especially the team of Croatia had a strong performance...

After the successful last weekend for the IPPON GEAR athletes in the Junior European Cup in Kaunas – they went to Spain for another EJU Junior European Cup to get more medals. And they did just that! The competition was held in the beautiful surroundings of Malaga.

It was a weekend full of competition – also in Bielsko-Biala, Poland there was the 2019 Cadet European Judo Cup, which is another one of the bigger European Cups on the Cadet World Tour. It has a lot of competitors including many strong nations attending including a team from Japan. But that was...