Anton Geesink, a 6-foot-6 Dutchman who stunned Japan when he defeated Japanese opponents to win the 1961 world judo championship and capture a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Games, died Friday in ...

Anton Geesink from Netherlands, poses wearing the gold medal he won in the Judo Open event at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, October 1964. World champion in 1961 and 1965 the giant (2-metre) Dutchman won ...

Anton Geesink, who helped make judo a universally popular sport by winning a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, has died. He was 76. Geesink died Friday, according to the Dutch state broadcaster ...

Anton Geesink, 76, a member of the International Olympic Committee who won the first Olympic gold medal in judo, died Aug. 28 after several weeks in a hospital in his home town of Utrecht, Netherlands ...

Anton Geesink, a 6-foot-6 Dutchman who stunned Japan when he defeated Japanese opponents to win the 1961 world judo championship and capture a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Games, died Friday in ...

August 27 - Dutch judo legend and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Anton Geesink has died tonight in hospital in his home town of Utrecht. He was aged 76. He had been ill for a number of ...

(ATR) Anton Geesink, the judoka from the Netherlands who stunned Japan with his gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, died Aug. 27 in Utrecht after hospitalization for an undisclosed illness. Geesink, who ...

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch judo Olympic champion Anton Geesink, the first non-Japanese to win a world judo championship, has died at the age of 76. Dutch state broadcaster NOS said Geesink, an ...

AMSTERDAM -- Anton Geesink, a member of the International Olympic Committee who won the first Olympic judo gold medal, has died after several weeks in the hospital. He was 76. The Netherlands' Olympic ...