Romane Dicko extends at PSG until 2025

Triple European champion and Olympic medalist, judoka Romane Dicko, a precocious talent aged just 22, has extended her contract with Paris Saint-Germain until 2025, the Parisian club announced on Thursday. “For me, PSG Judo is still the biggest judo club in France, with high-level infrastructure.“Explained the native of Clamart, who had won the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics in the over 78 kg category and gold in the mixed team event.

The PSG judo section has two other Olympic medalists in its workforce: the triple Olympic champion Teddy Riner and Amandine Buchard, silver in Tokyo last year in less than 52 kgs. “It’s true that we have a very very good group“, rejoiced Romane Dicko. “We also have Marie (Marie-Eve Gahié, editor’s note) who is also world champion. I really think that we can move forward with a view to the Paris Games and have a good harvest in two yearsadded the champion.

Last May, Romane Dicko triumphantly won her third title of European champion, a competition where she never lost a single fight, winning all her oppositions by ippon. Enough to fill up with confidence before the world championships in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), from October 6 to 13.

With the Games in Paris still in sight, in two years, where Dicko hopes to win gold after the semi-disappointment of the bronze medal brought back from Tokyo last year. “To have my medal in Tokyo was really something beautiful and so I hope to repeat it with a better medal in Paris“, announced the judoka.