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Or Sasson

Sasson at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Native name	אור ששון‎
Nickname	Sasson
Nationality	Israel
Born	(1990-08-18) 18 August 1990 (age 34) Jerusalem, Israel
Alma mater	Ruppin College
Height	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	120 kg (265 lb)
Sport
Country	Israel
Sport	Judo
Weight class	+100 kg
Rank	black belt in Judo
Club	Meitav Jerusalem
Coached by	Gil Ofer, Oren Smadja
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	(2016)
World finals	R32(2014,2015,2018,2019)
Regional finals	(2015, 2016)
Highest world ranking	3 (2016)
Medal record Men's judo Representing  Israel Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro +100 kg European Games 2015 Baku +100 kg European Judo Championships 2016 Kazan +100 kg IJF World Masters 2016 Gualdelajara +100 kg IJF Grand Slam 2016 Paris +100 kg 2019 Ekaterinburg +100 kg 2017 Abu Dhabi +100 kg IJF Grand Prix 2016 Tbilisi +100 kg 2017 Tashkent +100 kg 2019 Tel Aviv +100 kg 2019 Budapest +100 kg 2020 Tel Aviv +100 kg 2018 Zagreb +100 kg 2011 Amsterdam –100 kg 2013 Ulaanbaatar –100 kg 2014 Zagreb +100 kg 2015 Düsseldorf +100 kg Maccabiah Games 2009 Tel Aviv –100 kg
Updated on 6 January 2025

Or "Ori" Sasson (Template:Lang-he; born 18 August 1990) is an Israeli Olympic judoka. He won a bronze medal in the +100 kg category at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

In June 2015, representing Israel at the 2015 European Games in judo in the +100 kg category in Baku, Azerbaijan, Sasson won a silver medal for Israel in the inaugural European Games. In doing so he won the silver medal in the 2015 European Judo Championship.

Biography

Sasson was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and is of Kurdish-Jewish and Romanian-Jewish descent. He is the younger brother of former judoka and Israel national team captain Alon Sasson, who, when they were children, would hit him to show him who was boss. He resides in Netanya, Israel, and studies Business Administration at Ruppin College. Sasson is a fan of basketball and basketball team Hapoel Jerusalem B.C.

Judo career

Sasson started training in judo when he was eight years old. His coaches are Gil Ofer and Oren Smadja, his club is Meitav Jerusalem, and he started competing in 2005. He has worked with Noam Eyal, a sports psychologist who works for the Olympic Committee of Israel. Sasson won the Israeli judo championship at −100 kg (−220 pounds) in 2007–09 and 2011, and at +100 kg in 2011 and 2012.

In July 2009 Sasson won the gold medal at the 2009 Maccabiah Games in Tel Aviv, Israel, in judo at −100 kg. In September 2011 he competed in the Judo World Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where Iranian Javad Mahjoub was slated to face him, but refused.

In February 2012, he won a gold medal in the World Cup Prague in judo at +100 kg. In February 2013 and the following month, Sasson won gold medals in the European Open Tbilisi, Georgia and the European Open Warsaw at −100 kg. In September 2014, he won a gold medal at the European Open Tallinn in Estonia at +100 kg, as he weighed approximately 115 kg and returned from surgery on an injured thumb.

On 26 June 2015, representing Israel at the 2015 European Games in judo in the +100 kg category (while weighing 120 kg (265 lb)) in Baku, Azerbaijan, Sasson won a silver medal for Israel in the inaugural European Games, and in doing so won the silver medal in the 2015 European Judo Championship. He lost to 159 kg (351 lb) Adam Okruashvili of Georgia in the final.

He won the silver medal at the 2016 European Judo Championships.

Rio Olympics

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Sasson defeated Egyptian judoka Islam El Shahaby in the first round. When the match ended, Sasson tried to shake his opponent's hand, but El Shahaby refused—to loud boos and jeers from the near-capacity crowd for the Egyptian's behavior. El Shahaby later announced that he was retiring from judo.

Sasson also beat Polish judoka Maciej Sarnacki, defeated Dutch judoka Roy Meyer, and overcame Cuban judoka Alex Garcia Mendoza. His only loss was in the semi-finals against the eventual gold medal winner French judoka Teddy Riner.

Sasson was awarded the Olympic bronze medal at Judo +100 kg.

After Rio

Sasson took part in the torch lighting ceremony at the 2017 Maccabiah Games on 6 July 2017.

On 8 October 2017, Sasson competed at the Tashkent Grand Prix, his first competition since the 2016 Olympics, and won the gold medal. On 28 October, he won the bronze medal at the 2017 Abu Dhabi Grand Slam after he defeated Benjamin Harmegnies of Belgium by waza-ari.

In 2018, he won the silver medal in the Zagreb Grand Prix. In 2019 he won the gold medal at the Tel Aviv Grand Prix, the silver medal at the Ekaterinburg Grand Slam, and the gold medal at the Budapest Grand Prix.

Sasson represents Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics, competing at the men's +100 kg weight category. Sasson was drawn directly into the second round, where he again met Rinner, the only judoka to to beat him in the last Olympics. Much like in 2016, the ten-time world champion and two-time Olympic champion Frenchman beat Sasson by a waza-ari, this time eliminating him from the individual competition.

Achievements

Source:

See also

• List of select Jewish judokas

References

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External links

• Or Sasson at the International Judo Federation
• Or Sasson at JudoInside.com
• Or Sasson at AllJudo.net (in French)
• Or Sasson at Olympics.com
• Or Sasson at the Olympic Committee of Israel (archived) (in Hebrew)
• Or Sasson at the European Judo Union
• Or Sasson on Facebook
• "Huge Ippon win for Or Sasson" (video), baku2015.com, 27 June 2015

v t e Olympic medalists for Israel
Gold medalists	Gal Fridman (2004) Artem Dolgopyat (2020) Linoy Ashram (2020) Tom Reuveny (2024)
Silver medalists	Yael Arad (1992) Inbar Lanir (2024) Raz Hershko (2024) Sharon Kantor (2024) Artem Dolgopyat (2024) Israel national rhythmic gymnastics team (2024)
Bronze medalists	Oren Smadja (1992) Gal Fridman (1996) Michael Kolganov (2000) Arik Ze'evi (2004) Shahar Tzuberi (2008) Yarden Gerbi (2016) Or Sasson (2016) Avishag Semberg (2020) Israel national judo team (2020) Peter Paltchik (2024)

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• Israeli male judoka
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• Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Israel
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• European Games medalists in judo
• Judoka at the 2015 European Games
• European Games silver medalists for Israel
• Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent
• Olympic bronze medalists for Israel
• Olympic judoka of Israel
• Judoka at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Olympic medalists in judo
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