Christa Deguchi of Lethbridge, Alberta won the gold medal on Friday in the 2024 Baku Grand Slam of Judo. It was Deguchi’s ninth grand slam title of her career. Deguchi was one of three Canadian judokas to win a medal Read more
Team Canada won three medals at the International Judo Grand Slam in Paris this past weekend. In the women’s 57 kilogram weight class, Christa Deguchi of Lethbridge, Alberta won the silver medal and Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Jessica Klimkait of Read more
Christa Deguchi of Lethbridge, Alberta won her eighth grand slam judo gold medal on Saturday when she won the 2023 Tokyo Grand Slam. The two-time World Champion (of 2019 and 2023) was one of two Canadians to reach the podium Read more
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
According to CBC Sports on Thursday, Canadian Olympic gold medalists Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of London, Ontario have been inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2023. Virtue and Moir won the gold medal for Canada in the 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