Julia Dorny (born 20 February 1990), is a German athlete, media scientist, journalist and television presenter who has won various World and European Championships in three martial arts disciplines. She is the only female athlete in the world who has won championships in

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. She was the first German woman to become MMA European Champion and MMA World Champion in

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amateurs. In her professional career she was an undefeated fighter until her first loss in March 2022. She fought for the German Mixed Martial Arts Championship (GMC) and was under contract with

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. In May 2023, she signed a multiple fight contract in the women's league

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. Julia Dorny holds a black belt (1st Dan) in three sports and a BJJ purple belt.

Sports career (beginnings, judo and sumo career)

At the age of 7 Dorny began to be enthusiastic about judo. Since the age of 14 she has been fighting in the German Judo League. At the age of 17 she fought for the first time in the inaugural Judo Bundesliga (PSV Rostock). At 18, she was awarded her black belt in judo. Dorny is a multiple-time Berlin judo champion. She was German vice-champion in the individual classification, several times winner of the national ranking tournament and has countless international successes to her credit. In 2005 she qualified for the European Judo Championship, but was unable to compete due to injury. Dorny was a cadre athlete at the Olympic Training Center Berlin as well as in the German Judo Federation (DJB). Dorny was a student at the Werner-Seelenbinder-Sportschule, today's Schul- und Leistungssportzentrum Berlin (SLZB). With her former first division club JC Wiesbaden, she won bronze at the team championships. She is currently under contract for first division club JC 71 Düsseldorf.
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Sumo career

In 2016 Dorny began

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training and later that year she became German champion, won bronze at the European Championships, and took 5th place at the World Championships. In 2017 she received a

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(1st dan) ranking in sumo wrestling. In her sumo career, Dorny became a multiple-time German champion (individual and open weight), secured 5th place at the 2017

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, and won silver at the 2019 US Open in Los Angeles.

MMA career

Dorny won her MMA debut as an amateur at the German Championships (GEMMAF) 2015. In the same year she was nominated for the

World Championship in Las Vegas – winning

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at her international debut. She then proved to be a consistent performer by winning another

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at the IMMAF European Championship in

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. In the following years, she participated in the IMMAF European (2016 runner-up European Champion) and IMMAF World Championships (2016

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