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 ...
Anton Geesink, who helped make judo a universally popular sport by winning a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, has died. He was 76. Geesink died Friday, according to the Dutch state broadcaster ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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