By Mark Etheridge Three of South Africa’s leading judoka are sweating it out at an intense training camp in Hungary, ahead of the upcoming senior and cadet World Judo Championships.

By Mark Etheridge South Africa’s rising judo stars fought their way to eight medals at the African Junior and Cadet Championships in Egypt earlier this month.

By Mark Etheridge Commonwealth Games bronze medallist three years ago, Siyabulela Mabulu fought his way to anther medal of the same hue at the recent African Senior Judo Championships in Madagascar.

As an eighteen-year-old, Devan Stemmet (TuksJudo) will be pretty much a novice when he steps on to the judo mats to fight for the first time at the Senior African Championships in Madagascar.

The Latin phrase 'veni, vidi, vici' was a fitting description of the TuksJudokas performance at the recent South African Judo Trials and the South African Ranking Tournament in Bloemfontein.

By Mark Etheridge Glasgow Commonwealth Games gold medallist and Rio Olympian judoka Zack Piontek has ditched the international mat… for this year at least.

By Mark Etheridge After qualifying for the Rio Olympics later this year, Commonwealth gold medallist judoka Zack Piontek is hard at work making sure he covers all bases in preparation.

When it comes to the numbers game, the fighting Breytenbach twins are a winning combination.

It took a long time, four years to be precise, but at long last Dale Whitaker can again claim to be a champion.

By Mark Etheridge A silver medal at the African Championships in Tunisia on Friday has surely all but sealed judoka Zack Piontek’s place in Team South Africa for the Rio Olympics later this year.