NIKIFOROV Toma

Olympic Games

Year	Location	-100 kg
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	9

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	-100 kg
2010	Singapore, SIN	2

World Championships

Year	Location	-100 kg
2021	Budapest, HUN	17
2017	Budapest, HUN	7
2015	Astana, KAZ	3
2014	Chelyabinsk, RUS	9

World Open Championships

Year	Location	Open
2017	Marrakech, MAR	2

European Championships

Year	Location	-100 kg
2021	Lisbon, POR	1
2020	Prague, CZE	17
2019	Minsk, BLR	7
2018	Tel Aviv, ISR	1
2017	Warsaw, POL	17

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	-100 kg	1x	-	1x	-	-	1x	-	-	-
2020	-100 kg	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-
2019	-100 kg	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	1x	1x
2018	-100 kg	-	1x	-	1x	-	-	-	1x	-
2017	-100 kg	-	1x	1x	-	1x	1x	-	-	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
2019	-100 kg	-	1x	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018	-100 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-
2017	-100 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2021	-100 kg	Grand Slam	Tashkent, UZB
1	2017	-100 kg	Grand Prix	Dusseldorf, GER
2	2019	-100 kg	Grand Prix	Marrakech, MAR
2	2018	-100 kg	Grand Slam	Yekaterinburg, RUS
2	2017	-100 kg	Grand Slam	Abu Dhabi, UAE
3	2021	-100 kg	Grand Slam	Tbilisi, GEO
3	2019	-100 kg	Grand Prix	Antalya, TUR
3	2017	-100 kg	Grand Slam	Tokyo, JPN
5	2020	-100 kg	Grand Slam	Budapest, HUN
5	2018	-100 kg	Grand Slam	Dusseldorf, GER

Armed Forces Athlete

Partner Karmen, daughter Azalia [2020]

Bulgarian, French

Royal Crossing Club Schaerbeek [BEL] / Belgian Defence Forces [BEL]

Damiano Martinuzzi [national], BEL; Mark van der Ham [national], NED

His father Nikolay Nikiforov has won multiple Belgian national judo championships. His younger brother Dilyan has represented Belgium in judo at junior international level, competing at the 2019 European Junior Championships in Vantaa, Finland. (SportsDeskOnline, 04 Jul 2021; ijf.org, 21 Feb 2019; blog.lesoir.be, 22 May 2016)

He took up the sport as a child at Royal Crossing Club Schaerbeek in Brussels, Belgium. (blog.lesoir.be, 22 May 2016)

He was also initially involved in swimming, gymnastics and tennis, and decided to focus on judo at age 16. "My dad was a judoka as well, so I followed him onto the mat while he was training. My first club was Royal Crossing Club Schaerbeek. It is my first club, but it will also be my last club. I wouldn't move anywhere else." (eju.net, 19 Jun 2016; blog.lesoir.be, 22 May 2016)

Japanese judoka Kosei Inoue. (eju.net, 19 Jun 2016)

His parents. (blog.lesoir.be, 22 May 2016)

"All-in." (global.toyota, 28 Apr 2018)

He was chosen as flag bearer for Belgium at the opening ceremony of the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus. (teambelgium.be, 20 Jun 2019)