The Paris 2024 “Did you know?” sections will provide viewers with interesting, lesser-known facts related to each day of the competition.
-48kg / -60kg
- The first ever Olympic Champion in the -48kg category happened to be a French judoka, Cecile Nowak.
- There are only 3 European judoka who ever won an Olympic gold in the -48kg category: Ceclie Nowak (FRA), Alina Dumitru (ROU) and Distria Krasniqi (KOS).
- Tara Babulfath (SWE), who has gone from a cadet world bronze to a senior world bronze in the space of 8 months, will be one of the youngest judoka to compete at the Paris Olympics.
- Giorgi Sardalashvili (GEO) is Georgia’s youngest World Champion in judo.
- Double Olympic medallist, Yeldos Smetov (KAZ) is unseeded in the -60kg category.
- Gender Equality: Paris 2024 will feature an equal number of male and female judo athletes, continuing the sport’s tradition of gender equality in competition.
Judo made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games in 1964, and Paris 2024 will mark its 60th anniversary as an Olympic sport.
Author: Szandra Szogedi