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1999
World Championships: Day 1 & Day 2
A SPECIAL TWO PART
TWOJ REPORT
Political wranglings and
minor carpet-rolling mishaps apart, the NIA staged a truly wonderful
World Championship that should be remembered for its outstanding Judo
and electrifying atmosphere. With many reigning World and Olympic
champions attending, the standard of Judo was excellent and the vociferous
crowd remained enthralled to the end...
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1999
World Championships: Day 3 & Day 4
A SPECIAL TWO PART
TWOJ REPORT
An
ebullient sell-out crowd packed the NIA to the rafters, eagerly anticipating
fireworks to match the previous day's euphoria. Unfortunately the
Long Good Friday could not last forever and Saturday Night Fever never
quite materialised...
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Cross
Training and Neil Adams
ADAMS MEETS GRACIE!
I had heard a rumour circulating
that some members of the Gracie family, legends themselves in jui-jutsu,
vale tudo and ultimate fighting circles, had been on the mat with
Neil Adams who had proceeded to armlock the pants off them. With this
in mind I tracked down Neil to find out how true this apparent judo-conquers-all
story is...
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Judo
In America Needs Some Changes
AN INTERVIEW WITH
THE INTERIM PJU PRESIDENT
My
name is Jaime Casanova from the Dominican Republic. I was elected
to stand as the Interim President of Pan American Judo Union at the
meeting of the Pan American directing committee on 9th November, which
lasted 12 hours and did not finish until 6am in the morning...
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The
Journal of the European Judo Union
WINTER, 1999
It is with great pleasure
that we have included the latest copy of the European Judo Newsletter.
The Newsletter can be downloaded from twoj.org as a .pdf file
which can be opened using Adobe Acrobat Reader (a free program). If
you have any news that you would like to include in the next issue
I would be grateful if you could forward it to me at: ejunews@twoj.org.
Hope you enjoy it!
Bob Willingham,
EJU Newsletter Editor, IJF Photographer

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the EJU Newsletter (264KB)...
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IJF
Picture of the Month
DECEMBER, 1999
The IJF Picture of the
Month features the best in judo action from around the world, all
phtographed by the official IJF photographer, Bob Willingham.
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the big picture »
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Championships 1999 |
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WOMEN
-48kg
Ryoko Tamura (JPN)
-52kg
Noriko Narasaki (JPN)
-57kg
Driuli Gonzalez (CUB)
-63kg
Keiko Maeda (JPN)
-70kg
Sibelis Verenes (CUB)
-78kg
Noriko Anno (JPN)
+78kg
Beata Maksymow (POL)
OPEN
Daima Beltran (CUB)
MEN
-60kg
Manolo Poulot (CUB)
-66kg
Lardi Benboudaoud (FRA)
-73kg
Jimmy Pedro (USA)
-81kg
Graeme Randall (GBR)
-90kg
Hidehiko Yoshida (JPN)
-100kg
Kosei Inoue (JPN)
+100kg
Shinichi Shinohara (JPN)
OPEN
Shinichi Shinohara (JPN)
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