Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Antoine Valois-Fortier of Quebec City, Quebec retired at age 31 on Thursday according to the Canadian Press. Valois-Fortier placed third in the men’s 81 kilogram weight class in judo at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. At Read more
Canadian judokas came away with two bronze medals at the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam on Sunday. Shady El Nahas of Toronto, Ontario won the bronze medal in the men’s under 100 kilogram division, while Marc Deschenes of Laval, Quebec won Read more
Shady El Nahas of Toronto, Ontario won the silver medal in the men’s 100 kilogram weight class at a Judo Grand Slam in Baku, Azerbaijan on Sunday according to the Canadian Press. For El Nahas, it was his sixth career Read more
Team Canada came away with two medals in cycling and judo on day three of the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo on Friday. Kate O’Brien of Calgary, Alberta won silver in the women’s C4-5 track cycling 500 metre time trial, Read more
Judokan Priscilla Gagne of Granby, Quebec has been named the flag bearer for Canada in the Opening Ceremonies of the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, which starts Tuesday. Gagne, who has a visual impairment that impacts her central Read more
For the second time at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, a Canadian female judoka won an Olympic medal. On Tuesday, Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard followed in the footsteps of Jessica Klimait the day before, with an Olympic bronze medal in the Read more
Jessica Klimkait of Whitby, Ontario made Canadian sports history on Monday by becoming the first ever Canadian Olympic female medalist in judo. The 24-year-old won the bronze medal in the women’s 57 kilogram weight class. Klimkait is the 2021 world Read more
Heading into the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, Team Canada was in a unique position when it came to the women’s 57 kilogram event. Only one Canadian judoka would be able to compete in the event even though Read more
Jessica Klimkait of Whitby, Ontario became the second Canadian all-time to win gold at the 2021 World Judo Championships in Budapest, Hungary on Tuesday according to CBC Sports. Due to the fact Klimkait won the gold medal and finished ahead Read more
Christa Deguchi of Lethbridge, Alberta won the 2021 Antalya Judo Grand Slam this past Thursday in Turkey. In the women’s 57-kilogram weight class, Deguchi beat fellow Canadian Jessica Klimkait of Whitby, Ontario in the final, as Klimkait settled for silver. Read more