Jessica Klimkait of Markham, Ontario won a gold medal for Canada in the women’s 57 kilogram division at the Osaka Grand Slam judo competition on Sunday. Klimkait was one of two Canadians to reach the podium as Shady El-Nahas of Read more
Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard of Montreal, Quebec and Jessica Klimkait of Markham, Ontario each won a silver medal for Canada at a Judo Grand Prix in Cancun, Mexico this past weekend. Beauchemin-Pinard won silver in the women’s 63 kilogram weight class and Read more
Team Canada won its first three medals on Monday at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Emma Misak of Surrey, British Columbia won a silver medal in girls’ break dancing, Keegan Young of Markham, Ontario won the bronze Read more
Christa Deguchi of Montreal, Quebec has won the bronze medal for Canada at the 2018 World Judo Championship in Baku, Azerbaijan. Deguchi placed third in the women’s 57 kilogram division on Saturday to become the first Canadian female ever to win Read more
Team Canada continued their success in international judo this past weekend at the Grand Prix in Budapest, Hungary.The Canadian squad came away with four bronze medals–three on the women’s side and one on the men’s side. Ecaterina Guica of La Read more
Christa Deguchi of Montreal, Quebec won an all-Canadian judo final at the 2018 Zagreb Grand Prix on Sunday. Deguchi won the gold medal in the women’s 57 kilogram division as she defeated Jessica Klimkait of Whitby, Ontario. Klimkait picked up Read more
With the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo only two years away, there is a new Canadian judo star that Canadian sports fans need to be aware of. Her name is Christa Deguchi, and the reason why she has just recently Read more
Arthur Margelidon of Montreal, Quebec has cracked the top 10 in the International Judo Federation world rankings. On Saturday, Margelidon won the silver medal in the men’s 73 kilogram division at the Tokyo Grand Slam, and moved into 10th in Read more
Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard of Montreal, Quebec won a bronze medal in the 63 kg division at a Grand Prix judo event in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Saturday. For Beauchemin-Pinard it was best result of the season to go along with her silver Read more