Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard of Montreal, Quebec won the silver medal on Monday at the 2025 World Judo Championships in Budapest, Hungary. This was Beauchemin-Pinard’s second medal at the World Judo Championships as she won the silver medal Read more
Francois Gauthier-Drapeau of Alma, Quebec and Kyle Reyes of Brampton, Ontario each won the bronze medal on Sunday at the International Judo Federation Grand Slam in Tokyo, Japan. Gauthier-Drapeau placed third in the men’s 81 kilogram division, and Reyes placed Read more
The fourth day of the 2024 Olympic Games takes place on Tuesday with judo, tennis, basketball, rugby sevens, gymnastics, archery, swimming and volleyball. Team Canada is in the semifinals in women’s rugby sevens against Australia with a 75% chance of Read more
Heading into the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Christa Deguchi was the clear gold medal favourite in the women’s 57 kilogram weight class. On Monday, Deguchi made Canadian sports history by becoming the very first Canadian judoka to win gold. Read more
Here is Canada’s schedule for Monday in Paris at the 2024 Olympic Games. All eyes will be on Summer McIntosh in her quest for gold in the women’s 400 metre individual medley, where the Toronto teen has the world record. Read more
This is quite frankly an exciting time in the Canadian judo program. At the 2024 World Judo Championships, Canada came away with three medals. At the last six World Judo Championships, Team Canada has won a dozen medals. To put Read more
Team Canada has won its third medal at the 2024 World Judo Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. On Thursday, Shady El Nahas of Toronto, Ontario won the silver medal in the men’s 100 kilogram half-heavyweight division. Due to Read more
Team Canada earned two medals on Monday at the 2024 World Judo Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. In an interesting sequence of events, Christa Deguchi of Lethbridge, Alberta and Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Jessica Klimkait of Whitby, Ontario Read more
Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Jessica Klimkait of Whitby, Ontario won the gold medal in an International Judo Federation Grand Slam event in Dushanbe, Tajikistan on Friday according to Michael Charlebois of the Canadian Olympic Committee on Monday. For Klimkait, it Read more
Christa Deguchi of Lethbridge, Alberta won the gold medal in the women’s 57 kilogram judo competition at the 2024 Antalya Grand Slam on Friday. It was one of three medals won by Canadian judokas over Easter weekend, as Francois Gauthier-Drapeau Read more