TEDDY IN FIGURES

TEDDY‘S CAREER

At the age of 14, he joined Pôle Espoirs de Rouen. He remained there one year, during which he trained with Dominique Paolozzi. The following year, he returned to the capital to join the French national team at INSEP, where he was a boarder. He did the bulk of his preparation with Benoît Campargue, one of the national coaches. Nevertheless, Serge Dyot, his coach at Paris Judo and later at Lagardère Paris Racing, was never far away. The two men have known each other since Teddy was a teenager.

One year, during a session, the coach gave his own black belt to his young judoka, who had forgotten his. « I then wore it for a fight », remembers Teddy. « It brought me luck. I found it suited me better than him. Since then, I’ve always had it with me. I wear it in all my competitions. It’s my favourite belt. »

Since the start of his judo journey, Teddy has worn the colours of four successive clubs: Paris Judo (formerly PSG), Judo Club Bolivar, Lagardère Paris Racing and Levallois Sporting Club (since September 2009). He has been coached by Alain Perriot (Paris Judo then JC Bolivar), Dominique Paolotzi (Pôle Espoirs de Rouen), Serge Dyot (Paris Judo then Lagardère Paris Racing), and Christian Chaumont (Levallois SC) since 2009.

He has been a member of the French national team since the age of 15, for which he has trained since 2004 under the responsibility of Benoît Campargue and, for the youth teams, Franck Chambilly. Since the London Olympics, his national training has been coordinated by Franck Chambilly (following the departure of Benoit Campargue). Christian Chaumont still coaches Teddy at the Levallois club.