ANDREW Joshter

Date of Birth: 11 Mar 1998

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Olympic Scholarship

Place of residence : IBARAKI

Residence Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Judo	Men -81 kg	33

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -81 kg Elimination Round of 64 #3 GUM ANDREW JANDREW Joshter 0s1 TJK MURODOV AMURODOV Akmal 10 IPP	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	-81 kg
2021	Budapest, HUN	33
2019	Tokyo, JPN	33
2018	Baku, AZE	33

Asia-Oceania Championships

Year	Location	-81 kg
2021	Bishkek, KGZ	9
2019	Abu Dhabi, UAE	17

Oceania Championships

Year	Location	-81 kg
2018	Noumea, NCL	3
2017	Nuku'alofa, TGA	4

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

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	9th	16th	17th	30th-33rd
2020	-81 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x
2019	-81 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x
2018	-81 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
2018	-81 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2x

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	-81 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2x
2018	-81 kg	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	1x	-	-
2017	-81 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-

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

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
5	2018	-81 kg	World Cup	Perth, WA, AUS
9	2018	-81 kg	World Cup	Hong Kong, CHN
9	2017	-81 kg	World Cup	Hong Kong, CHN
17	2019	-81 kg	World Cup	Perth, WA, AUS
17	2019	-81 kg	World Cup	Rome, ITA
32	2020	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Dusseldorf, GER
32	2019	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Osaka, JPN
32	2018	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Osaka, JPN
33	2019	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Dusseldorf, GER
33	2019	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
33	2018	-81 kg	Grand Prix	Budapest, HUN
33	2018	-81 kg	Grand Prix	Zagreb, CRO

Going to the beach. (tokyodailynews.com, 17 Mar 2018)

Occupation:

Business Law - Ryutsu Keizai University, Ryugasaki, JPN

Languages spoken:

English, Japanese

He took up the sport in 2013. (kuam.com, 25 Jul 2019)

He first tried judo after his father enrolled him in a summer camp. (postguam.com, 18 Jul 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 13 Jun 2021)

Winning gold in the -81kg event at the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia, Samoa. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Jul 2021; kuam.com, 25 Jul 2019; postguam.com, 18 Jul 2019)

Philosophy:

"I don't know what the future holds for me, but I can only control one day at a time." (Instagram profile, 21 May 2021)

General Interest

Preferred techniques
Harai-goshi (judobase.ijf.org, 06 Jun 2021)

General
TRAINING CAMPS
In 2018 he was selected by the International Judo Federation [IJF] to join a training programme in Budapest, Hungary. "The judo here is intense. The main focus on why they sent us out here is to get used to fighting the Europeans. They are more powerful. The Japanese use a lot of technique but the Europeans are brutal, they power everything. They use weights to cover up their judo skills." Besides Hungary he has also attended training camps sponsored by the IJF in France and Spain. (twnews.co.uk, 21 Feb 2020; sctimes.com, 05 Apr 2019; tokyodailynews.com, 17 Mar 2018)

MOVE TO JAPAN
He moved to Japan in 2017 to start university and improve his judo technique thanks to a scholarship from Olympic Solidarity. After two years in which he learnt the Japanese language, he began studying business law at Ryutsu Keizai University in Ryugasaki, Japan. (kuam.com, 25 Jul 2019; sctimes.com, 05 Apr 2019; tokyodailynews.com, 17 Mar 2018)

HERITAGE
He was born to parents from Palau and the Marshall Islands. (tokyodailynews.com, 17 Mar 2018)

Social Media

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/joshandrew81/
https://instagram.com/j.andrew_33/

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
IPP:: Ippon

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