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In February 2012, he won a gold medal in the World Cup Prague in judo at +100 kg.<ref name="judoinside.com"/> In February 2013 and the following month, Sasson won gold medals in the European Open [[Tbilisi]] in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] and the European Open Warsaw at −100 kg.<ref name="judoinside.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-judoka-refuses-to-compete-with-israeli/|title=Iranian judoka boycotts Israeli; Forfeit gives Assaf Chen the bronze medal; another Iranian refuses to mount podium after Ori Sasson wins gold in his category|work=The Times of Israel|author=Aaron Kallman|date=3 February 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref name="judoinside.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.judoinside.com/news/192|title= Thumbs up for Or Sasson after gold medal in Tallinn|work=judoinside.com|date=24 September 2014}}</ref>
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 Championships|2015 European Judo Championship]].<ref name="judoinside.com"/><ref name="baku2015.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4673315,00.html|title=Silver medal in Judo to Ori Sasson|work=ynet|date=27 June 2015}}</ref> He lost to 159 kg (351 lb) [[Adam Okruashvili]] of Georgia in the final.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.judoinside.com/news/602|title=Golden Adam Okruashvili proud best of the rest|work=judoinside.com|date=27 June 2015}}</ref><ref>[http://reshet.tv/News_n/heb/Sport/OtherSport/articlesports,19738/]</ref>
==See also==
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