BESSI Cedric

World Championships

Year	Location	-73 kg
2021	Budapest, HUN	33
2019	Tokyo, JPN	65
2018	Baku, AZE	17
2015	Astana, KAZ	63
2014	Chelyabinsk, RUS	33

European Championships

Year	Location	-73 kg
2021	Lisbon, POR	17
2019	Minsk, BLR	17
2018	Tel Aviv, ISR	17
2017	Warsaw, POL	33

Grand Slam - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	9th	16th	17th	30th-33rd
2021	-73 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x
2020	-73 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x
2019	-73 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	2x
2018	-73 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-
2017	-73 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x

Grand Prix - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2020	-73 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x
2019	-73 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x
2018	-73 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2x
2017	-73 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x

World Cup - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	4rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2019	-73 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x
2018	-73 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x
2017	-73 kg	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	1x	-	-

Grand Slam, Grand Prix & World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
5	2017	-73 kg	World Cup	Lima, PER
9	2017	-73 kg	World Cup	Santiago, CHI
17	2019	-73 kg	World Cup	Odivelas, POR
17	2019	-73 kg	Grand Slam	Abu Dhabi, UAE
17	2018	-73 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
17	2018	-73 kg	Grand Prix	The Hague, NED
17	2018	-73 kg	Grand Prix	Tunis, TUN
17	2017	-73 kg	Grand Prix	The Hague, NED
33	2021	-73 kg	Grand Slam	Antalya, TUR
33	2020	-73 kg	Grand Slam	Dusseldorf, GER
33	2020	-73 kg	Grand Prix	Tel Aviv, ISR
33	2019	-73 kg	World Cup	Tallinn, EST
33	2019	-73 kg	Grand Slam	Dusseldorf, GER
33	2019	-73 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
33	2019	-73 kg	Grand Prix	Marrakech, MAR
33	2018	-73 kg	World Cup	Prague, CZE
33	2017	-73 kg	Grand Slam	Tokyo, JPN

French

His father, Eric-Louis Bessi, became the first judoka to compete for Monaco at the Olympic Games at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. He also competed at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, and has served as president of the executive committee of the Monaco Judo Federation. (archysport.com, 08 Jul 2021; eju.net, 16 Dec 2020; SportsDeskOnline, 20 Jul 2021)

He took up judo in Monaco at age five. (lagazettedemonaco.com, 15 Aug 2020)

He followed his father, Eric-Louis, and his older brother into the sport. He also tried tennis, cycling and skateboarding as a child, but preferred judo. "I was waiting for the school day to end to be back on the tatami mats. To take up the words of [his first coach] Marcel - what we do in judo is what we cannot do at school or in the playground. Rolling on the ground, screaming, bickering, pulling on each other's clothes. It was fun - this sense of the forbidden from childhood to adolescence allowed me to grow, to blossom and to find a balance." (lagazettedemonaco.com, 15 Aug 2020; codesport.fr, 02 Apr 2014)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (ijf.org, 12 Jun 2021)

Since childhood he has trained at the Stade Louis II in Monaco, and he usually trains twice a day. In 2021 he travelled to Valdeblore in the French Alps for an altitude training course. (archysport.com, 08 Jul 2021; lagazettedemonaco.com, 15 Aug 2020)

His father Eric-Louis, and his first coach Marcel Pietri. (lagazettedemonaco.com, 15 Aug 2020; codesport.fr, 02 Apr 2014)

"The most important thing is to fight your own fight. I do not pay attention to the competition - I give my best, I know my goals and I know where I want to go." (lagazettedemonaco.com, 15 Aug 2020)