What do Madeleine Malonga of France, Aliaksandr Vakhaviak of Belarus, Volodymyr Soroka of the Ukraine and Argentine Orlando Baccino have in common? They are all judoka born at Christmas day. And this Christmas we can also enjoy the Japanese Championships in Tokyo. Judo at Christmas day, that’s a present.
At https://kamikajino.com/ as informational provider site we are thrilled to witness the happenings in Japan for these Open category championships. We have seen great winners in the past such as recordholder Yasuhiro Yamashita, Naoya Ogawa, Shinichi Shinohara, Satoshi Ishii, current Japanese coach Keiji Suzuki who won the Open title multiple times. Kosei Inoue also won it three times in a row in the beginning of this century and the last champion last year was Ryunosuke Haga.
オンラインカジノ 本人確認不要 The All Japan Judo Championships will be spectacular to follow this weekend. One of those Olympic Champions and All Japan winners was Satoshi Ishii. is the 2008 heavyweight Olympic Champion for Japan and he won the All Japan Open in 2006 and 2008 in a period with many legendary rivals such as Suzuki, Inoue, Takamasa Anai. After his career Ishii turned into MMA. He lived and trained in the Netherlands but eventually moved to Croatia where he still performs as international renowned fighter. When he won the Olympic title at the age of 21 he already retired from judo to choose for MMA. He was also a judoka born end of December. Of all 142 Olympic Champions ten were born in December and Tadahiro Nomura contributed heavily with three Olympic titles and Distria Krasniqi is the last Olympic Champion born in December. July and August includes for instance 16 Olympic Champions.
Looking at World Championships, out of 284 different World Champions (425 titles), only 13 were born in December like the great Champion Nomura who became World Champion only once in his career and the late Craig Fallon and current World Champions Barbara Matic (3 Dec) and Jessica Klimkait (31 Dec). There is only one World Champion who was born at Christmas day: Madeleine Malonga who celebrates Christmas. Malonga became World Champion in 2019 in the Budokan in Tokyo and took silver this year in Budapest and took silver at the Tokyo2020 Olympic Games.
There are two months that cover thirty World Champions, so April and August are the best months for a judoka with ambitions to be born. Many people say that January is a good month as those athletes may have a longer experience in the youth compared to athletes born in December. But the truth is, that is actually April and July. Major judo stars born in April are ten time World Champion Teddy Riner and Dutch pioneer Anton Geesink. In August legends like Belgian six time World Champion Ingrid Berghmans were born and French triple World Champion Lucie Decosse.
Of all 365 days, there is one special day with the most judo success. 1 June is the only date with three World or Olympic Champions: 1980 Olympic Champion Thierry Rey, legendary 1984 Olympic Champion Yasuhiro Yamashita and 2008 Mongolian Olympic Champion Naidan Tuvshinbayar. We wonder who will be the next.
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