Article: Iran Rewards Judo Champion for Refusing to Fight Israeli.

Article: S. Korean World Judo Champion Fails to Win ...
YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea;  August 14, 2004 ;     369 words ... ... Yonhap) -- South Korea's world judo champion was Saturday blocked by a Mongolian ... Min-ho, last year's world judo champion, was beaten by Mongolia's ... cited as the favorite to win a gold medal. He suffered the unexpected ...

Article: Salesian softball shortstop now national judo ...
San Francisco Chronicle;  August 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... softball field. The 17-year-old, who will be a senior at El Cerrito High next month is a national judo champion. She won a gold medal at the Junior Nationals Judo Championships earlier this year then followed it up by placing first at the ...

Article: Politics, Not Sport, Come First for Iranian Athlete; Judo ...
The Washington Post;  August 16, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Two-time world judo champion Arash Miresmaeili of Iran, the gold medal favorite in the under-66 kg class, forfeited his first-round match against Israeli Ehud Vaks after saying he would not fight ...

Article: Israel's Judo Champion Wins a Bronze.
Israel Faxx;  August 20, 2004 ;     404 words ... ... Athens, Greece. Zeevi, Israel's Judo champion, lost a match earlier Thursday ... from South Korea - costing him the gold medal. The South Korean took the gold ... Zeevi is the reigning European Judo champion and ranks second place worldwide ...

Article: Iranian Judo Champion Rewarded for Stance
AP Online;  September 8, 2004 ;     340 words ... ... TEHRAN, Iran Iran has paid a judo champion who avoided an Olympic match against ... 000 prize money it awarded its gold medal winners, the official Islamic ... bout. Miresmaeli was the world judo champion in 2001 and 2003 and finished fifth ...

Article: Olympic judo champion Xian Dongmei mulls rest but ...
Xinhua News Agency;  October 10, 2005 ;     538 words ...Olympic judo champion Xian Dongmei mulls rest ... here on Monday, Olympic judo champion Xian Dongmei had to field ... ippon to sail into the gold medal final, experienced and ... her dream of getting a gold medal in Asian Games pushed ...

Article: Chinese Olympic judo champion Xian dethroned at ...
Xinhua News Agency;  October 10, 2005 ;     563 words ...Chinese Olympic judo champion Xian dethroned at National ... Chinese Olympic judo champion Xian Dongmei failed ... trying to fight into the gold medal final. Besides, Olympic ... Shanxi province took the gold medal of men's 60kg category ...