Anton Geesink, who has died aged 76, was in every sense a towering figure in the world of judo. He was 6ft 6in (1.98m) tall, weighed in at around 120kg (18st 13lb) and was, according to his British ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

(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 ...

Anton Geesink, a 6-foot-6 Dutchman who stunned Japan when he defeated Japanese opponents to win the 1961 world judo championship and capture a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Games, died Friday in ...

(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 ...

The Dutchman, who has also managed Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Ajax, as well as the Dutch national team, was given the prize at the National Sports Centre Papendal in The Netherlands. He guided his ...

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