Van der Horst Judo Institute

Description

Judo school run by the Dutch judo pioneer Jan van der Horst on the Oudkerkhof in Utrecht in the late 1940s and the 1950s, where Anton Geesink received his first judo lessons.

Also known as

Judoschool van Jan van der Horst

Locations (1)

• location_onUtrecht

  Oudkerkhof, Utrecht

  warning No sources cited

Founder

Instructors (1)

• person
  Jan van der Horst

  Head instructor

  1948 – 1957

  Probable

  Probable

  Wikipedia only.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  fact_check

  Wikipedia only.

  “Eind jaren 40 en in de jaren 50 had Van der Horst in de stad Utrecht een judoschool: Judo Instituut Van Der Horst op het Oudkerkhof.”

  — Jan van der Horst (judoka) - Wikipedia (Nederlands). Wikipedia (Dutch)link history info

Trained here (1)

• person
  Anton Geesink

  sports_martial_artsKōdōkan Jūdō Confirmed

  Confirmed

  Multiple independent Dutch sources (nl.wikipedia, Verhaal van Utrecht, Utrecht City archive) agree Geesink took his first judo lessons at Van der Horst's school in Utrecht from age 14.

  The evidence establishes the claim: it is sufficient and consistent, and any conflicting evidence is resolved.

  under Jan van der Horst (1948)

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  4 sources expand_more

  fact_check

  Multiple independent Dutch sources (nl.wikipedia, Verhaal van Utrecht, Utrecht City archive) agree Geesink took his first judo lessons at Van der Horst's school in Utrecht from age 14.

  “Anton Geesink kreeg daar zijn eerste lessen.”

  — Jan van der Horst (judoka) - Wikipedia (Nederlands). Wikipedia (Dutch)link history info

  “Op 14-jarige leeftijd ziet Anton Geesink voor het eerst een judo-demonstratie. Hij is onmiddellijk verkocht en neemt les bij Jan van der Horst aan de Amsterdamsestraatweg.”

  — (2025). Anton Geesink: judoheld uit Utrecht link history info

  visibilityFirst-hand

  “N. Age and Ge Koning both got theirs soon after by telling the Kodokan that they were Geesink's teachers, which was not a little white lie, but a big black one because Geesink's sensei was Jan van der Horst from Utrecht.”

  — Bluming, Jon. (1999). Doing Judo at the Korean Yudo Association, December 1959. Journal of Combative Sportlink history info

  “De heer Jan van der Horst heeft met zijn judoschool in Utrecht vele nationale individuele titels en nationale teamtitels behaald en hij was de eerste leraar van Anton Geesink.”

  — Visser, Willem. (2009). Herdenking bij het overlijden van de heer Jan van der Horstlink history info

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