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North Macedonia At The 2020 Summer Olympics
North Macedonia competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics and the first under the country's new name. North Macedonia won their first ever silver medal, won by Dejan Georgievski in the Men's +80 kg event in Taekwondo, with the nation having previously only received a bronze medal. Medalists Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Athletics North Macedonia received a universality slot from the World Athletics to send a male track athlete. ;Track & road events Judo North Macedonia entered one female judoka after International Judo Federation awarded them a tripartite invitation quota. Karate North Macedonia received an invitation from the Tripartite Commission to send Puleksenija Jovanoska in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Committee Of North Macedonia
The Olympic Committee of North Macedonia ( mk, Олимписки комитет на Северна Македонија) is the National Olympic Committee of North Macedonia. Members of the committee are 26 sports federations, which elect the Executive Council composed of the president and four members. It is based in the country's capital, Skopje. History The Olympic Committee of North Macedonia was founded as the ''Olympic Committee of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia'' in 1992 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1993 reflecting the disputed status of its country's official name. In March 2019, the IOC approved its name change to the Olympic Committee of North Macedonia. List of presidents Assignments and aims The Committee aims to develop the sport activity and sport education in North Macedonia. It also works to spread the Olympism and to interest the young people in the value of the sport and the Olympic Games. The main assignments and aim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrestling At The 2020 Summer Olympics
Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo featured two disciplines, freestyle and Greco-Roman, which were further divided into different weight categories. Men competed in both disciplines whereas women only participated in the freestyle events, with 18 gold medals awarded. Wrestling had been contested at every modern Summer Olympic Games, except Paris 1900. Around 288 wrestlers were expected to compete in 18 events at the 2020 Summer Olympics which was postponed in March 2020 and planned for 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Competition format 16 wrestlers compete in each division. The competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals. The two finalists face off for gold and silver medals. Each wrestler who loses to one of the two finalists moves into the repechage, culminating in a pair of bronze medal matches featuring the semifinal losers each facing the remaining repechage opponent f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming World Magazine
''Swimming World'' is a US-based monthly swimming magazine that was first published in a magazine format as ''Junior Swimmer'' in January 1960. It concurrently runs online websites ''Swimming World Magazine'' and ''Swimming World News'', (known as ''SwimInfo'' prior to 2006). The headquarters is in History In its earliest form, ''Junior Swimmer'' began as a mimeograph/newsletter published by Peter Daland in the summer of 1952. In 1960, Coach Daland passed the responsibility of the project to Albert Schoenfeld due to Daland's greater coaching demands as the swim coach at the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles Athletic Club. The January 1960 issue was the first published in a magazine format, still called ''Junior Swimmer''. The magazine then went through six title changes over the next 45 years. In May 1961, the magazine changed its main cover title to ''Jr./Sr. Swimmer''. The publication then combined with ''Swimming World'' in June 1961. At that time, ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FINA
FINA (french: Fédération internationale de natation, en, International Swimming Federation, link=yes) (to be renamed as World Aquatics by ) is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administering international competitions in water sports. It is one of several international federations which administer a given sport or discipline for both the IOC and the international community. It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. FINA currently oversees competition in six aquatics sports: swimming, diving, high diving, artistic swimming, water polo, and open water swimming. from the FINA website (www.fina.org); retrieved 2013-06-05. FINA also oversees " Masters" competition (for adults) in its disciplines. History FINA was founded on 19 July 1908 in the Manchester Hotel in London, UK at the end of the 1908 Summer Olympics by the Belgian, British, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian and Swedish Swimming Federations. Number of nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 Metre Air Pistol
The Men's 10 meter air pistol event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 24 July 2021 at the Asaka Shooting Range in Japan. Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. Schedule All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9 UTC+09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09:00. During the Japanese occupations of British Borneo, Burma, Hong Kong, Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Philippines, Singapore, and French Indochina, it was used as a common time with ...) Results Qualification Final References {{DEFAULTSORT:Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics - Men's 10 metre air pistol Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics Men's events at the 2020 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borjan Brankovski
Borjan Brankovski (born 15 December 1996 in Skopje) is a Macedonian professional shooter who is currently World No 113 and represents North Macedonia internationally in the men's 10m Air Pistol event. Career He participated in the 2019 European Games and secured 30th place in the men's 10 metre air pistol event and he also participated in the World Championships, World Cup and European Championships. 2020 Summer Olympic He qualified to represent North Macedonia at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ... in the men's 10 m air pistol event. References Living people 1996 births Place of birth missing (living people) Macedonian male sport shooters European Games competitors for North Macedonia Shooters at the 2019 Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karate At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's Kata
The women's kata competition in Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 5 August 2021 at the Nippon Budokan. Competition format Competitors were divided into two pools of 5 or 6, and each took turns to perform two sets of kata in the elimination round. The top-three competitors by average score in each pool advanced to the ranking round, where they performed a third set of kata. The winner of pool A faced the winner of pool B in the gold medal bout. Two bronze medals were awarded in kata events. The runner-up of pool A faced the third-place finisher of pool B in a bronze medal bout, while the runner-up of pool B faced the third-place finisher of pool A in another bronze medal bout. Schedule All times are in local time (UTC+9 UTC+09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09:00. During the Japanese occupations of British Borneo, Burma, Hong Kong, Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Philippines, Singapore, and French Indochina, it was used as a common time with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puleksenija Jovanoska
Puleksenija Jovanovska ( mk, Пулексенија Јовановска, born 11 July 1993) is a Macedonian professional karateka. She represents North Macedonia internationally. Career *She is European bronze medalist in European Karate Championships (Continental Championship) and Balkan gold medalist in U-21 Individual Kata category and she also won medals in the World Karate Federation recognised tournaments. *In 2021 she secured 11th place in the 56th European Karate Championships Karate Championships held at Croatia. Achievements She competed at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Paris, France hoping to qualify for 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan She did not qualify at this tournament but she was able to qualify after the allocation of Tripartite Commission Invitation places and the reassignment of the last qualifying spots. Now she will represent North Macedonia in Women's kata at the Karate competition of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Karate Federation
The World Karate Federation (WKF) is the largest international governing body of sport karate with 198 member countries. It was formed in 1990, is the only karate organization recognised by the International Olympic Committee and has more than ten million members. The WKF organizes the Junior and Senior Karate World Championships, which are each held every other year. The President of the WKF is Antonio Espinos, and the headquarters are located in Madrid, Spain. All the styles are officially recognised by the WKF. History Karate was introduced into Europe around the 1950s by Japanese masters, mainly from the Japan Karate Association (JKA). In 1961, Jacques Delcourt was appointed President of French Karate Federation, which was at that stage an associated member of the French Judo Federation. In 1963 he invited the six other known European federations (Italy, Great Britain, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Spain) to come to France for the first-ever international karate event, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelsie Giles
Chelsie Giles (born 25 January 1997) is a British judoka. She won the gold medal in the women's 52 kg event at the 2022 European Judo Championships held in Sofia, Bulgaria. She won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Giles' medal was the first awarded to Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Career Giles won the half-lightweight division at the British Judo Championships in 2014, 2015 and 2017. In 2017, she competed in the women's 52 kg event at the 2017 European Judo Championships held in Warsaw, Poland. A year later, she competed in the women's 52 kg event at the 2018 World Judo Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan. She was eliminated in her second match by Charline Van Snick of Belgium. At the 2018 Judo Grand Prix Antalya held in Antalya, Turkey, she won the silver medal in her event. She also won one of the bronze medals in the women's 52 kg event at the 2018 Judo Grand Prix Budapest held in Budapest, Hungary. She als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judo At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 52 Kg
The women's 52 kg competition in Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics, judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was held on 25 July 2021 at the Nippon Budokan. Results Finals Repechage Pool A Pool B Pool C Pool D References External links * Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics - Women's 52 kg Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics, W52 Judo at the Summer Olympics Women's Half Lightweight Women's events at the 2020 Summer Olympics 2021 in women's judo, Olympics W52 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Judo Federation
The International Judo Federation (IJF) was founded in July 1951. The IJF was originally composed of judo federations from Europe and Argentina. Countries from four continents were affiliated over the next ten years. Today the IJF has 200 National Federations on all continents. There are over 20 million people around the globe who practice judo, according to the IJF. History Since 2009, IJF has organized yearly World Championships and the World Judo Tour consisting of five Grand Prix, four Grand Slams, a master tournament, and a Continental open tournament. The IJF initially named Russian President Vladimir Putin its honorary president and IJF Ambassador in 2008. That status of Putin's was suspended in 2022, in reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The IJF also cancelled all competitions in Russia, but allowed their athletes to compete as neutral athletes. After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, all of the other 31 international Olympic sports organizations banned Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
