de WIT Frank

Date of Birth: 13 Feb 1996

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Youth Olympian

Place of birth: BEVERWIJK

Birth Country:

Netherlands

Place of residence : ARNHEM

Residence Country:

Netherlands

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Judo	Men -81 kg	9
	Mixed Team NED Netherlands	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -81 kg Elimination Round of 32 #10 NED de WIT Fde WIT Frank 10 IPP SAM PERCIVAL PPERCIVAL Peniamina 0s1	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -81 kg Elimination Round of 16 #23 NED de WIT Fde WIT Frank 0s1 GER RESSEL DRESSEL Dominic 1s1 WAZ	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 2	Mixed Team Elimination Round of 16 #2 NED Netherlands 4 UZB Uzbekistan 3	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 2	Mixed Team Quarterfinal #4 BRA Brazil 2 NED Netherlands 4	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 2	Mixed Team Semifinal of Table B #6 FRA France 4 NED Netherlands 0	Finished
	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Mixed Team Bronze Medal A #7 GER Germany 4 NED Netherlands 2	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	-81 kg
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	17

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	-81 kg
2014	Nanjing, CHN	3

World Championships

Year	Location	-81 kg	Team X
2021	Budapest, HUN	3	-
2019	Tokyo, JPN	33	9
2018	Baku, AZE	33	7
2017	Budapest, HUN	7	9
2015	Astana, KAZ	33	-

European Championships

Year	Location	-81 kg	Team
2020	Prague, CZE	5	-
2019	Minsk, BLR	7	-
2018	Tel Aviv, ISR	9	-
2017	Warsaw, POL	5	7

World Masters

Year	Location	-81 kg
2021	Doha, QAT	2
2019	Qingdao, CHN	17
2018	Guangzhou, CHN	3
2017	St. Petersburg, RUS	3

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	-81 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-
2020	-81 kg	-	-	1x	1x	-	1x	-	-	-
2019	-81 kg	-	-	1x	2x	-	-	-	1x	-
2018	-81 kg	-	-	2x	1x	1x	-	-	-	-
2017	-81 kg	2x	-	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	-81 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	1x
2018	-81 kg	-	1x	1x	1x	-	-	-	-	-
2017	-81 kg	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	1x

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

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2019	-81 kg	Grand Prix	Tbilisi, GEO
1	2017	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Abu Dhabi, UAE
1	2017	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
2	2018	-81 kg	Grand Prix	The Hague, NED
3	2021	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Tel Aviv, ISR
3	2020	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Dusseldorf, GER
3	2019	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Osaka, JPN
3	2018	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Abu Dhabi, UAE
3	2018	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
3	2018	-81 kg	Grand Prix	Cancun, MEX
3	2017	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Tokyo, JPN

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

Benito Maij [national], NED

He took up judo at age five at a sport school in Beverwijk, Netherlands. (frankdewitjudo.nl, 14 May 2016)

He would go watch his brother train and compete in judo, and liked it so much that he decided to try it himself. (frankdewitjudo.nl, 14 May 2016)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (nhnieuws.nl, 28 Aug 2019)

Winning his first World Tour event at the 2017 Grand Slam in Paris. (Judo YouTube channel, 02 Dec 2019)

Dutch judokas Henk Grol, Dex Elmont, Guillaume Elmont, Dennis van der Geest, Dutch-Belgian judoka Elco van der Geest, Georgian judokas Varlam Liparteliani, Avtandil Tchrikishvili. (combat-sports.net, 26 Apr 2018)

His father. (Judo YouTube channel, 02 Dec 2019)

He likes to get a haircut before a competition. (tym.nl, 28 Aug 2015)

Milestones

At age 20 years and 178 days he became the youngest male Dutch judoka to compete at an Olympic Games when he took part in the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. (frankdewitjudo.nl, 14 May 2016; Facebook page, 04 Jan 2020; SportsDeskOnline, 18 Feb 2020)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/frank.dewit.16
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/frankdewitjudo/
https://instagram.com/frankiewit/
https://twitter.com/witfrank
Athlete Website: http://www.frankdewitjudo.nl/

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
IPP:: Ippon
WAZ:: Waza-Ari

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