Teddy Riner wins two judo golds at Paris 2024, reaching five Olympic titles
At the Paris 2024 Games, French judoka Teddy Riner won gold in the individual and team events, taking his fifth Olympic title before a home crowd.
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Teddy Riner, France's best-known judoka, competed at the Paris 2024 Olympics in front of a home crowd at the Champs-de-Mars Arena. On 2 August 2024 he won the heavyweight (over 100 kg) individual title, beating South Korea's Kim Min-jong in the final.
The next day, 3 August, he helped France win the mixed team event, a final in which the French side beat Japan. That success gave Riner his fifth Olympic gold medal, after individual titles in London 2012 and Rio 2016 and a team title in Tokyo 2020. He also holds several Olympic bronze medals.
The victories mattered well beyond sport. Riner, a multiple world champion and long a leading figure of French sport, was already widely popular, and the Paris Games made him one of the most recognisable faces of the national team. His status as a public figure after these Games later fed speculation about a possible move into politics.
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