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, 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 ...

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, 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 ...

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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 ...

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