Teddy Riner

Teddy Riner medal table
Teddy Riner
Judo
France
Olympic games
bronze	2008 Beijing	over 100 kg
gold	2012 London	over 100 kg
gold	2016 Rio de Janeiro	over 100 kg
World championships
gold	2007 Rio de Janeiro	over 100 kg
gold	2008 Levallois-Perret	open class
gold	2009 Rotterdam	over 100 kg
gold	2010 Tokyo	over 100 kg
silver	2010 Tokyo	open class
gold	2011 Paris	over 100 kg
gold	2013 Rio de Janeiro	over 100 kg
gold	2014 Chelyabinsk	over 100 kg
gold	2015 Astana	over 100 kg
gold	2017 Budapest	over 100 kg
bronze	2017 Budapest	team
European championships
gold	2007 Belgrade	over 100 kg
gold	2011 Istanbul	over 100 kg
gold	2013 Budapest	over 100 kg
gold	2014 Montpellier	over 100 kg
gold	2016 Kazan	over 100 kg

Teddy Pierre-Marie Riner (born April 7, 1989 in Pointe-à-Pitre , Guadeloupe ) is a French judoka . He is 2.05 meters tall and weighs about 130 kg.

Teddy Riner after defeating Andreas Tölzer in the heavyweight final of the Judo World Championships 2010 in Tokyo

Career

At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 and in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 , he was Olympic heavyweight champion. He is the second French Olympic champion after David Douillet to win this title at two consecutive Olympic Games in the heavyweight division. In 2012, 2016 and 2017, Riner was named France's Sportsman of the Year by the sports daily L'Équipe . From 2010 to 2020 he did not lose a fight (154 wins in a row), although he did not contest in 2018. In 2019 he made a comeback and won the Grand Slams in Montreal and Brasilia . On February 9th, 2020 he was defeated in the third round of the IJF Grand Slam tournament in Paris to the Japanese Kokoro Kageura in extra time ("Golden Score") by Uchi-mata-sukashi. In his career, Riner lost only nine fights at major international events.

Web links

• Teddy Riner on Judoinside
• http://www.ippon.org/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ La journée de Riner: malgré une finale au couteau, Riner est tout en haut. August 12, 2016. Retrieved August 12, 2016 .