It was the moment that changed judo forever. For so long the sport was the preserve of Japan, but Dutchman Anton Geesink broke the stranglehold by becoming the first non-Japanese judoka to win the ...
Anton Geesink from Netherlands, poses wearing the gold medal he won in the Judo Open event at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, October 1964. World champion in 1961 and 1965 the giant (2-metre) Dutchman won ...
(ATR) Anton Geesink, the judoka from the Netherlands who stunned Japan with his gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, died Aug. 27 in Utrecht after hospitalization for an undisclosed illness. Geesink, who ...
He had been ill for a number of months and been in intensive care for three weeks. Geesink became Olympic judo champion at Tokyo in 1964, when the sport was making its debut in the Games in its home ...
Anton Geesink, 76, a member of the International Olympic Committee who won the first Olympic gold medal in judo, died Aug. 28 after several weeks in a hospital in his home town of Utrecht, Netherlands ...
Anton Geesink, the Dutchman who helped make judo a universally popular sport, has died aged 76. Geesink, who won the first Olympic judo gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Games, died yesterday after several ...
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch judo Olympic champion Anton Geesink, the first non-Japanese to win a world judo championship, has died at the age of 76. Dutch state broadcaster NOS said Geesink, an ...
(ATR) European Olympic Committees president Patrick Hickey tells Around the Rings that Anton Geesink will be remembered as a true icon of the sport of judo. Services for Geesink were held Wednesday in ...
It was the moment that changed judo forever. For so long the sport was the preserve of Japan, but Dutchman Anton Geesink broke the stranglehold by becoming the first non-Japanese judoka to win the ...
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