Teddy Riner is a French judoka who has dominated the heavyweight division for most of the twenty-first century, winning multiple Olympic gold medals and a record number of world championship titles. He went unbeaten in competition for roughly a decade at his peak, making him one of the most dominant athletes in any combat sport during that span.
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Career HighlightNine-time world champion in the heavyweight judo division and three-time Olympic gold medalist (2012, 2016, 2024), the first judoka to win twelve World Championship golds. 1 Classification
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- Also in Geography Atlas: France, nationality there.
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1. Wikipedia, Teddy Riner
Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org lead sentence, birth-date clause: "born 7 April 1989"
born 7 April 1989
en.wikipedia.org lead sentence, birth-year figure: "born 7 April 1989"
born 7 April 1989
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French heavyweight judoka
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he is the first and only judoka in history to win twelve gold medals at the World Judo Championships.
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Teddy Pierre-Marie Riner (, French: [tedi pjÉ›Ê maÊi ÊinÅ“Ê]; born 7 April 1989) is a French heavyweight judoka.
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