Teddy Riner at the 2024 Olympics: schedule, opponent, program… At what time to follow his quarter-final ?

It's the big day for Teddy Riner who aims for this Friday 2  August 2024 at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games third Olympic gold medal in individual +100kg. Here is the detailed program and all the practical information to follow his day at the Olympics. < /p> Latest updates

12:36 – A yellow card for Riner

After two minutes in this quarter-final, the fight between Teddy Riner and Guram Tushishvili is very balanced. The Georgian, 4th in the world, is very active and the Frenchman had trouble putting his hands on his kimono. He even got of a first yellow card.

12:32 – Start of Riner's quarter-final

Things are really getting serious for Teddy Riner. After having spent After more than six minutes on the tatami in his first round, the triple Olympic champion, including two individual ones, is back to face Georgian Guram Tushishvili in the quarter-finals.

12:17 – Just one more fight before Riner

Japan's Tatsuru Saito has finally won his quarter-final match – it took him eight minutes! – and Teddy Riner's return to the tatami is fast approaching. There is only one fight left, between Temur Rakhimov and Alisher Yusupov, before the Frenchman's next round in this Olympic tournament.

12:00 – Riner back around 12:15

Teddy Riner's quarter-final, the last on the schedule on mat no. 2 of the Arena Champ-de-Mars, should take place between 12:15 and 12:30 this Friday depending on the length of the three previous fights.

11:55 – A world champion for Riner in the quarterfinals

After a tricky start, Teddy Riner will have to raise his game in the quarter-finals of the Olympic tournament. The Guadeloupean will come up against Guram Tushishvili, world champion in 2018 and European champion in 2017 in the heavyweight category. The Georgian, whom Riner has always beaten in three confrontations, the last in 2022, had also brought home the silver medal at the last Olympic Games, in Tokyo in 2021.

It was long and tight, but Teddy Riner will be in the quarter-finals of the Olympic tournament. The Frenchman needed 6 minutes 30 seconds to make the Emirati Magomedar Magomedarov give way, penalized by a second and then a third Shido during the golden score. If his start was somewhat sluggish, the double individual Olympic champion still ensured the essential by qualifying for the rest of the event. 

11:42 – Still no decision in the golden score

Already five minutes and 30 seconds into the fight, now in the golden score, and Teddy Riner still hasn't found the opening in this round of 16.

11:40 – It's not easy for Riner

Teddy Riner's fight is very tight. After three minutes, the Frenchman and Magomedar Magomedarov have still not scored, each having been penalized of a yellow card.

11:35 – Riner is off to a good start

&That's it, Teddy Riner begins his fifth Olympic Games!  The greatest judoka in history has climbed the Olympic Games! on mat n°2 of the Arena Champ-de-Mars to face Magomedar Magomedarov in the round of 16 of the +100 kilos tournament.

11:21 – Rinse soon on the tatami!

The big moment approach. Teddy Riner will make his debut in the Paris 2024 Olympic tournament in about ten minutes. Opposite à the Emirati Magomedar Magomedarov for his debut in the round of 16, the Frenchman has only two fights left before him before ;enter the Parisian arena.

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This Friday, August 2, 2024, it's time for the big day, that of the heavyweights in judo at the Paris 2024 Olympics! This day is of course that of Teddy Riner, eagerly awaited by the public of the ephemeral Grand Palais who are just asking to get excited, especially after a disappointing day on Thursday for the French camp. The leader of French judo is competing in his 5th Olympic Games and is aiming for a 6th Olympic medal after the bronze in Beijing in 2008, the gold in London in 2012 and Rio in 2016, the bronze in Tokyo completed by the team gold in 2021.

At 35, the man who did not rule out continuing until the start of these Olympics to Los Angeles in 2028, could make history this Friday by becoming the second judoka to win three individual Olympic gold medals after the legend Tadahiro Nomura. No heavyweight, the top category of judo, has ever done it! To do this, Teddy Riner will have to achieve a perfect run, starting in the first round at 11am. Here is the key information to follow his Olympic day as best as possible.

When will Teddy Riner's quarterfinal at the Paris Olympics take place ?

The so-called “heavyweight” category, i.e. +100kg, is the last on the judo program. The Olympic tournament is scheduled for this Friday, August 2, 2024 at the “temporary” Grand Palais, known as the “Arena Champ de Mars” for these Olympic Games. The fights will start at 10 a.m. for the round of 16. World No. 7 and therefore seeded, Teddy Riner was exempted of the 16th finals and entered the table directly in the 8th finals. After his victory, his fight is scheduled for around 12:15/12:30

Who will be Teddy Riner's opponent in the quarterfinals of the Olympics ?

Exempt from the first round, Teddy Riner eliminated the Emirati Magomedomar Magomedomarov in the eighth finals. In the quarter-finals of this Olympic tournament, he will meet Georgian judoka Guram Tushishvili, European champion in 2017 and Olympic vice-champion.

What is Teddy Riner's table to reach the final of the Olympic Games ?

On his way, Riner will come across the Georgian Guram Tushisvili, 29, in the quarter-finals. A big challenge since the latter was European champion in 2017, world champion in 2018 and above all Olympic vice-champion in Tokyo, beaten by the Czech Lukas Krpralek in the final during a tournament where Riner had lost in the quarter-finals against the Russian Tamerlan Bashaev. Tushishvili is now ranked 4th in the world and won the silver medal at the last European Championships as well as at the 2024 World Championships.

He has three fights against Riner, all lost, the last one in 2022 with PSG judo in the Champions League, a defeat that was a victory before reclamation and reclassification. Riner will especially remember the semi-final of the 2017 World Championships, a fierce fight that saw him win narrowly on the road to his 9th world title. In short, this potential quarter-final would be particularly tough… The Uzbek Yusupov, beaten twice at the Paris Grand Slam in 2023 and 2024, could meet him in the semi-final. In the other part of the table, we will obviously be watching the Japanese Tatsuru Saito, 6th in the world, and the South Korean world number 1 Minjong Kim. The Tajik Temur Rakhimov and the Cuban Andy Granda are also outsiders.

Who is Tadahiro Nomura that Teddy Riner can join in the event of victory ?

Teddy Riner dreams. This third Olympic title in Paris would be a consecration to home but also a very symbolic accessit since it would allow him to join Tadahiro Nomura, the only judoka to have won three individual Olympic gold medals. The Japanese was entered in -60kg and won gold in Atlanta in 1996, in Sydney in 2000 and in Athens in 2004. Also world champion in 1997, he had failed in qualify for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. No heavyweight, Riner's category, has achieved this feat. Hitoshi Saito in 1984 and 1988, David Douillet in 1996 and 2000 and Teddy Riner in 2012 and 2016 are the only ones in the category to have won Olympic gold twice in what is considered the premier category of judo.