Teddy Riner
Teddy Riner in 2016
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Teddy Pierre-Marie Riner |
| Nickname(s) | Teddy Bear, Big Ted |
| Nationality | French |
| Born |
7 April 1989 Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, France |
| Height | 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 140 kg (310 lb) |
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| Country |
 France
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| Sport | Judo |
| Event(s) | + 100kg |
| Club | JC Levallois |
| Turned pro | 2007– |
| Coached by | Christian Chaumont, Benoît Campargue |
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Teddy Pierre-Marie Riner (French: [tɛ.di/te.di ʁi.nœʁ/ʁi.nɛʁ]; born 7 April 1989 in Abymes in Guadeloupe) is a French judoka. He has won eight World Championships gold medals, the first and only judoka (male or female) to do so, and two Olympic gold medals. He has also won five gold medals at the European Championships. He is a member of the Levallois Sporting Club in Levallois-Perret, France.
Riner was born on 7 April 1989 in Les Abymes near Pointe-à-Pitre, on the island of Guadeloupe. He was raised in Paris. He was enrolled at a local sports club by his parents and played football, tennis and basketball, but says he preferred judo "because it is an individual sport and it's me, only me."
He is 2.04 metres (6 ft 8 in) tall and weighs 136 kilograms (300 lb). He is nicknamed "Teddy Bear", or "Big Ted".
Riner is a member of the Levallois Sporting Club in Levallois-Perret, France and is coached by Christian Chaumont and Benoît Campargue. He won the World and European junior titles in 2006. In 2007, he won a gold medal at the European Judo Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, on the day after his eighteenth birthday. At the 2007 World Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he became the youngest ever senior world champion when he won the heavyweight (+100 kg) event, defeating the 2000 Olympic gold medallist, Kosei Inoue of Japan, in the semi-final.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, Riner competed in the men's heavyweight event. He received a bye into the second round of the competition before beating Anis Chedli of Tunisia and Kazakhstan's Yeldos Ikhsangaliyev to advance to the semi-finals. In the semis he was beaten by Uzbek judoka Abdullo Tangriev on the golden score, meaning Riner had to enter the repechage rounds. In the repechage he defeated Andreas Tölzer and João Schlittler to reach a bronze medal final against Lasha Gujejiani of Georgia; Riner took the bronze medal by a score of one ippon, one yuko and one koka to nil. In December 2008 he won his second World Championship gold medal at the Open weight Championships held in Levallois-Perret, France, by beating Alexander Mikhaylin of Russia in the final.
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