Uzbekistan won two gold medals on the first day of the Grand Prix Portugal 2024 in Odivelas. World Championships 2023 silver medallist Dilshodbek Baratov was the best in the men's -60 kg category.

The 2024 Odivelas Grand Prix in Portugal will kick off the Olympic year for judokas. Many of the world's strongest athletes will be in Portugal to earn qualification points and improve their position in the Olympic rankings.

Shinawatra Paetongtarn, the deputy chairman of Thailand's National Soft Power Strategy Committee, is pushing for Muay Thai to become an Olympic sport, the Bangkok Post reports.

Following the highly successful 2023 GAMMA World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand last December, GAMMA has announced that the 2024 edition of its flagship event will once again take place in Asia, this time in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.

Dozens of judo coaches and referees from around the world gathered together in Gyor, Hungary over the weekend for the IJF Refereeing and Coaching Seminar, organised in cooperation with the European Judo Union.

2012 Olympic runner-up and former world champion Arsen Julfalakyan, 36, has set his sights on Paris 2024 after changing his nationality.

The second edition of the Abu Dhabi Extreme Championship took place on 19 January at the Mubadala Arena in the United Arab Emirates. Following its successful debut in November, the tournament returned with a dazzling light show and some memorable matches between the world's best jiu-jitsu fighters.

The composition of the FIAS Athletes' Commission, renewed following the results of the 2023 elections, has elected its new leader. According to the results of the electronic voting, the representative of the Philippines, Sydney Sy, was elected as Chairperson of the FIAS.

The Veterans and Kata World Championships will be held in Las Vegas in 2024. The announcement was made by Denis Weisser, Chairman of the IJF Veterans Commission.

Australian weightlifter Andrew Ciancio has been banned for 12 years by the Australian Weightlifting Federation for the presence of a metabolite of a prohibited substance and the use of a prohibited substance.

Spanish town Albir set the stage for the Annual Meeting of the AETF (All Europe Taekwon-Do Federation) Board of Directors from 12-14 January, 2024. It was the second year in a row that the event was held in Spain, and the second edition of the Stage & New Elite Competition, organised by FEST, received enthusiastic support.

The PATU President's Cup will be held in Costa Rica from 14 to 17 March. At this important event for the G-2 category, the Continental Union will award quotas for the Pan American Cadet, Junior and Senior Championships, as well as points for the ranking.

The world's judo elite met for the 30th time in Mittersill (Austria) from 8 to 16 January. Judokas from 58 nations, including the entire Austrian Olympic Team of 90 athletes - including Tokyo medallists Michaela Polleres and Shamil Borchashvili - came to the small town.

The year begins in the Pan American Taekwondo Union (PATU) with many activities planned for the whole Pan American family. The Kyorugi Seminar in all divisions are already full, as is the Poomsae seminar, as is the Poomsae seminar and the joint event with WT.