Benjamin Lah (born 10 November 1985) is a Slovenian

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who represents his native country

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in sport jujitsu ( JJIF).

Career

He was starting training

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at age of 11 in hometown

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. He was trained by famous Slovenian coach Marjan Fabjan but he never reached the highest international level in judo. In late 2005 he switched for sport jujitsu. His native country

hosted

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in 2011 in city

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and under supervision of coach Marko Gaber he won his first European title front of home crowd. He is also

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in sport ju-jitsu from 2016 in

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in discipline Fighting System, category −94 kg.

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