Team Canada had a 15 medal performance on Monday at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. Of the 15 medals were three gold medals. World champion Christa Deguchi of Lethbridge, Alberta won the gold medal in the women’s 57 Read more
Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard of Montreal, Quebec and Christa Deguchi of Lethbridge, Alberta each won gold at the Zagreb Grand Prix Judo Tournament in Croatia this past weekend. Deguchi placed first in the women’s 57 kilogram division on Read more
Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Jessica Klimkait of Whitby, Ontario has won her 10th career grand slam medal. Klimkait, who won the bronze medal in the women’s 57 kilogram division at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, won the Read more
Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Jessica Klimkait of Whitby Ontario won her first major judo competition for 2022 at the Antalya Judo Grand Slam in Turkey on Friday. Klimkait placed first in the women’s 57 kilogram division. Klimkait received a first Read more
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