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Team Canada won two more gold medals on Monday at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. The first place finishes came in judo and fencing. Shady El Nahas of Toronto, Ontario won the gold medal in the men’s Read more

Julien Frascadore of Quebec City, Quebec won a silver medal for Canada in men’s judo at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile on Saturday. It was the only medal won by a Canadian athlete. After a full week Read more

Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Jessica Klimkait of Whitby, Ontario won the 2023 Abu Dhabi Grand Slam Final on Tuesday from the United Arab Emirates. In an all Canadian final in the women’s 57 kilogram lightweight division, Klimkait defeated Christa Deguchi Read more

Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Jessica Klimkait of Whitby, Ontario won the gold medal in the women’s 57 kilogram judo division at the 2023 Hungary Masters in Budapest on Friday. For Klimkait, who won the bronze medal in the women’s 57 Read more

It was a special day in Canadian judo on Friday, as there was an all-Canadian final in the women’s 57 kilograms at the Ulaanbaatar Judo Grand Slam event in Mongolia. Christa Deguchi of Lethbridge, Alberta defeated Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Read more

Christa Deguchi of Lethbridge, Alberta and Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Jessica Klimkait of Whitby, Ontario each won a medal in the women’s 57 kilogram division weight class at the 2023 World Judo Championships at the Ali Bin Hamad al-Attiyah Arena Read more

It was a very successful Friday for Canadian judokas in Antalya, Turkey. A total of four Canadians came away with medals as Team Canada won one silver medal and three bronze medals in the 2023 Antalya Grand Slam. In the Read more

Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Jessica Klimkait of Whitby, Ontario, and Shady El Nahas of Toronto, Ontario each won the bronze medals in an International Judo Federation Grand Slam event in Tbilisi, Georgia over the weekend. Klimkait, who won the bronze Read more