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
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