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Judo At The 2012 Summer Olympics
The judo competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held from 28 July to 3 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre. Qualification Qualification was based on the world ranking list prepared by the International Judo Federation on 1 May 2012. Medal table Russia topped the medal table with three golds and five in total. Medal summary Men's events Women's events References External links * * * * {{coord, 51.5075, N, 0.0297, E, source:wikidata, display=title 2012 Summer Olympics events 2012 Olympics Olympics The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ... Judo competitions in the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Jae-bum
Kim Jae-bum (김재범) (; born January 25, 1985 in Gimcheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do) is a retired South Korean judoka. Despite being plagued with injuries throughout his career, Kim is known for dominating major competitions at the half-middleweight category (81kg)—particularly between his Olympic debut in 2008 and his 2012 Olympic finals rematch against Ole Bischof. Kim has had several nicknames, including "Man of One Arm Wins" for his successes through injury, "Korean Tiger" for his aggressive play and iconic status in South Korean judo, and "Energizer Bunny" for his quick and relentless style of judo. He was granted exemption from South Korea's mandatory military service in 2010, following his gold medal victory at the Guangzhou Asian Games. Judo career Kim won a gold medal in the -73 kg class at the 2004 World Junior Judo Championships in Budapest, Hungary. At the 2005 Asian Judo Championships in Tashkent, he won a gold medal in the -73 kg class. Kim was consid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ExCeL London
ExCeL London (an abbreviation for Exhibition Centre London) is an exhibition centre, international convention centre and former hospital in the Custom House, Newham, Custom House area of London Borough of Newham, Newham, East London. It is situated on a site on the northern quay of the Royal Victoria Dock in London Docklands, located between Canary Wharf and London City Airport History The centre was designed by Moxley Architects and built by Sir Robert McAlpine. It opened in November 2000. In May 2008 it was acquired by Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company. Phase II of development, which included building London's first International Convention Centre (ICC) and creating an "eastern arrival experience", was completed on 1 May 2010 with Phase 3 expected to be completed by 2023/24. In 2015, CentrEd at ExCeL was opened, which expanded the centre's facilities to incorporate training and meeting space near the western entrance of the venue overlooking Royal Victoria Dock. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mansur Isaev
Mansur Mustafaevich Isaev (russian: Мансур Мустафаевич Исаев; born 23 September 1986 in Kizilyurt, Dagestan) is a Russian judoka. In 2012, he won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the -73 kg class against the Japanese judoka Riki Nakaya. This was Russia's second gold medal at the Games, after judoka Arsen Galstyan Arsen Zhorayevich Galstyan ( hy, Արսեն Գալստյան, russian: Арсен Жораевич Галстян, born 19 February 1989) is an Armenian-born Russian judoka. Galstyan is a Merited Master of Sports of Russia and an Olympic Champion ...'s victory two days earlier in Men's 60 kg. References External links * Living people 1986 births Avar people People from Kizilyurt Russian male judoka Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in judo Olympic gold medalists for Russia Olympic judoka of Russia Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Dagestan {{Russia-Olympic-med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar
Tuvshinbayar Naidan ( mn, Найдангийн Түвшинбаяр born 1 June 1984) is a former professional Mongolian judoka. He is the 2008 Olympic Champion, 2012 Olympic silver medalist, 2014 Asian games champion, 2017 Budapest Bronze medalist, 2016 Asian championship Gold medalist, 2007 silver medalist and two-time (2008, 2011) bronze medalist in –100 kg division. Naidan is serving a sixteen-year jail term for a 2021 fatal assault on a fellow judoka and childhood friend. Olympic career At the 2006 Asian Games he finished in joint fifth place in both the heavyweight (-100 kg) division and the open weight class division. In the same division, he won a gold medal at the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing. He was the first Mongolian ever to win a gold medal at the Olympics, by defeating Kazakhstani judoka Askhat Zhitkeyev. On 14 August 2008, he was inducted as the state honoured athlete of Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tagir Khaibulaev
Tagir Kamaludinovich Khaybulaev (russian: Тагир Камалудинович Хайбуллаев, av, ТIагьир ХIайбулаев) (born 24 July 1984 in Kizilyurt, Dagestan, Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...) is a Russian judoka of Avar descent. He currently represents Samara in international and domestic championships. 2012 Olympics In the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tagir won his country's 3rd gold medal by defeating the defending champion Tuvshinbayar Naidan of Mongolia to win the men's under-100 kg Olympic judo title. Career Tagir Khaibulaev currently lives in Samara, Russia. He attends the Dinamo Judo Academy. In January 2017, he took a temporary pause in his career, but on December 17 of the same year he announced its compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masashi Nishiyama
is a Japanese judoka who won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He is competing for the Nippon Steel Corporation Judo Club. Biography Nishiyama was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture and graduated from the Kokushikan University in Tokyo. In the early 2000s he was competing in the 100 kg category but then moved to the 90 kg division. Competitions Nishiyama was defeated in the selection competitions for the 2012 London Olympics, but nevertheless was selected for the national team. sponichi.co.jp (2012-05-14) In London, he was defeated in the quarter-finals, and won the bronze medal via |
Ilias Iliadis (judoka)
Ilias Iliadis ( el, Ηλίας Ηλιάδης, born Jarji Zviadauri, ka, ჯარჯი ზვიადაური, on 10 November 1986) is a Georgian-born Greek judoka. He was named the 2014 Greek Male Athlete of the Year. He won a gold medal in the half-middleweight (81 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens at age 17. Illiadis also won a gold medal 6 years later at the 2010 World Judo Championships in Tokyo in the −90 kg category. As Greece's flagbearer, he had the honour of being the first athlete to march into the Bird's Nest Stadium during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Iliadis is a cousin of another Olympic champion, Georgian judoka Zurab Zviadauri Zurab Zviadauri (born July 2, 1981) is a Georgian judoka who competed in the Men's 90 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal, the first for Georgia. He is a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program. He also won ..., who also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asley González
Asley González (born 5 September 1989 in Caibarién) is a Cuban judoka. He won the 2013 World Championship in the −90 kg event. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal in the Men's 90 kg competition. Career At the 2008 Olympics, González competed in the −90 kg category, and lost his first match to Yves-Matthieu Dafreville. As Dafreville reached the semifinals, González was entered into the repechage, where he also lost his first match, to Roberto Meloni. At the 2012 Olympics, he beat Héctor Campos, Dmitrij Gerasimenko and Mark Anthony, before beating Kirill Denisov in the semifinal. In the final, González lost to Song Dae-Nam but won the silver medal. At the 2016 Olympics, he beat Martín Michel and Quedjau Nhabali before losing to Lkhagvasürengiin Otgonbaatar Lkhagvasürengiin Otgonbaatar ( mn, Лхагвасүрэнгийн Отгонбаатар; born 20 January 1993) is a Mongolian judoka. He represented his country at the 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Dae-nam
Song Dae-Nam (Hangul: 송대남; ; born 5 April 1979 in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do) is a former South Korean judoka. Song rose to prominence when he won the gold medal in the middleweight division at the 2012 Olympics. He was then nominated as the flagbearer for Korea in the closing ceremony. He is best known as the head coach of the South Korea Men's National Team, having produced two world champions in his first year as head coach. Song moved up a weight class from half-middleweight to middleweight in 2012 after constant defeats to teammate Kim Jae-bum and inability to qualify for the Olympics in 2008. Personal life Song is an alumnus of Kumoh Elementary School, Kyung-min Middle School and Kyung-min High School. Song served in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces as a sergeant, and represented them at the Military World Games in 2003, winning gold in the lightweight category. A comic book has been written about Song's win at the Olympics. Competitive career Beginnings: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Valois-Fortier
Antoine Valois-Fortier (born 13 March 1990) is a Canadian retired judoka who won the bronze medal in the −81 kg category at the 2012 Olympics, becoming the first Canadian to win a medal in Olympic judo in twelve years and the fifth to win one in Canadian history. Career Valois-Fortier entered the 2012 Olympics ranked 21st in the world in his weight class. He pulled off several upset victories, including a win over Olympic gold medalist Elnur Mammadli, to make the quarterfinals. He lost to Ivan Nifontov of Russia, but made the repechage and defeated Emmanuel Lucenti of Argentina to enter the bronze medal match against Travis Stevens, which he then won. Valois-Fortier's win is Canada's first Olympic medal in Judo since 2000, which was a silver won by his coach Nicolas Gill, and only the fifth won by a Canadian in Olympic history. At the 2016 Olympics he won his first two bouts, but then lost the third bout to the eventual gold medalist Khasan Khalmurzaev and the repechag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Nifontov
Ivan Vitaliyevich Nifontov (russian: Иван Витальевич Нифонтов; born 5 June 1987, in Pavlodar Pavlodar ( ; ) is a city in northeastern Kazakhstan and the capital of Pavlodar Region. It is located 450 km northeast of the national capital Astana and 405 km southeast of the Russian city of Omsk along the Irtysh River. , the cit ...) is a Russian judoka. He won the bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the category men's –81 kg. He carried the Winter Olympic torch before the Sochi Games. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nifontov, Ivan Living people 1987 births Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics Russian male judoka Olympic judoka of Russia Olympic medalists in judo Olympic bronze medalists for Russia Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2015 European Games European Games medalists in judo European Games silver medalists for Russia European Games bronze medalists for Russia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ole Bischof
Ole Bischof (born 27 August 1979 in Reutlingen) is a German judoka. He is trained by 1984 Olympic gold medalist Frank Wieneke. Biography Bischof began in the TSG Reutlingen with judo. He became German champion at the age of 18 in 1997 in the age-group U21. Four years later, in 2001, he won the title of German champion in the Men's category. Following this, he won medals on more international competitions and became 2005 European champion. Since 2001, Bischof has been competing in the team competitions for the TSV Abensberg. With the TSV Abensberg, he became team champion and 2006 European cup winner from 2002 to 2008. For the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens, Ole was replaced Florian Wanner. Bischof was the best placed German in the world rankings, with Wanner holding the title of world champion (2003 in Osaka/Japan). During the Olympics, Ole defeated judokas such as Tiago Camilo who was the silver medallist in Sydney 2000 and Roman Gontyuk, the silver medallist of Athens 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
