About Teddy Riner

Teddy Pierre-Marie Riner (/ˈriːnər/, French: ; born 7 April 1989) is a French judoka. He has won eleven World Championships gold medals, the first and only judoka (male or female) to do so, and five Olympic gold medals (three individual, two team). He has also won five gold medals at the European Championships. Riner was a member of the Levallois Sporting Club before joining Paris Saint-Germain in August 2017.

Personal life
Riner was born on 7 April 1989 in Les Abymes near Pointe-à-Pitre, in Guadeloupe, an insular region of France in the Caribbean. He was raised in Paris. He was enrolled at a local sports club by his parents and played football, tennis, and basketball, but says he preferred judo "because it is an individual sport and it's me, only me."

He is 2.04 metres (6 ft 8 in) tall and weighs 141 kilograms (311 lb). He is nicknamed "Teddy Bear", or "Big Ted".

With his partner, Luthna Plocus, Riner has a son, Eden, born in 2014 and a daughter, Ysis, born in 2018.