Or Sasson

Or Sasson
Personal information
Native name אור ששון
Full name Or Sasson
Nickname(s) Sasson[1]
Nationality Israeli
Ethnicity Jewish
Born (1990-08-18) 18 August 1990
Jerusalem, Israel
Residence Netanya, Israel
Alma mater Ruppin College
Height 193 cm (6 ft 4 in)[1]
Weight 120 kg (265 lb)[1]
Sport
Country  Israel
Sport Judo
Event(s) +100 kg (220 pounds)
Club Meitav Jerusalem
Coached by Gill Offer and Oren Smadja
Achievements and titles
National finals won the Israeli judo championship at −100 kg in 2007–09 and 2011, and at +100 kg in 2011 and 2012.
Medal record
Judo
Competitor for  Israel
Maccabiah Games
2009 Tel Aviv -100 kg
European Games
2015 Baku +100 kg

Or Sasson (also "Ori" and "Uri"; Hebrew: אור ששון‎; born 18 August 1990) is an Israeli judoka.[2]

In June 2015, representing Israel at the 2015 European Games in judo in the +100 kg (+220 pounds) category 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.

Early and personal life

Sasson was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and is Jewish.[1][2][3][4][5] He is the younger brother of Israeli judoka and national team captain Alon Sasson,[2] who when they were children would hit him to show him who was boss.[3] He lives in Netanya, Israel, and studies Business Administration at Ruppin College.[1][3]

Judo career

Sasson started training in judo when he was eight years old.[3] His coaches are Gill Offer and Oren Smadja, his club is Meitav Jerusalem, and he started competing in 2005.[1][3] He has worked with Noam Eyal, a sports psychologist who works for the Olympic Committee of Israel.[3] Sasson won the Israeli judo championship at −100 kg (−220 pounds) in 2007–09 and 2011, and at +100 kg in 2011 and 2012.[2]

In July 2009 Sasson won the gold medal at the 2009 Maccabiah Games in Tel Aviv, Israel, in judo at −100 kg.[2] In September 2011 he competed in the Judo World Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where Iranian Javad Mahjoub was slated to face him, but refused.[6][7]

In February 2012, he won a gold medal in the World Cup Prague in judo at +100 kg.[2] In February 2013 and the following month, Sasson won gold medals in the European Open Tbilisi in Georgia and the European Open Warsaw at −100 kg.[2][8] 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.[2][9]

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.[2][1][10] He lost to 159 kg (351 lb) Adam Okruashvili of Georgia in the final.[11][12]

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