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 ...

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 ...

August 27 - Dutch judo legend and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Anton Geesink has died tonight in hospital in his home town of Utrecht. He was aged 76. He had been ill for a number of ...

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 ...

(ATR) Anton Geesink, the judoka from the Netherlands who stunned Japan with his gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, died Aug. 27 in Utrecht after hospitalization for an undisclosed illness. Geesink, who ...

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has received the Anton Geesink Award for his achievements in football, The Netherlands' Judo Bond (JBN) have announced. The Dutchman, who has also managed ...

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 ...

Former world judo champion and international Olympic committee member Anton Geesink has died at the age of 76 after a short illness. In 1961, Geesink became the first Westerner to take the world ...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Anton Geesink, a member of the International Olympic Committee who won the first judo gold medal, has died after several weeks in the hospital. He was 76. The Netherlands’ Olympic ...

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