Julia Dorny (born 20 February 1990), is a German athlete, media scientist,[1] journalist and television presenter who has won various World and European Championships in three martial arts disciplines.

She was German vice-champion in the individual classification, several times winner of the national ranking tournament and has countless international successes to her credit.

Dorny was a cadre athlete at the Olympic Training Center Berlin as well as in the German Judo Federation (DJB).

After winning the European and World Championships, Dorny made her professional debut in front of her home crowd on 29 June 2019 at GMC20 in Berlin against Miriam Santana Ramos.

In addition to her sports career, Dorny works as presenter, and on-air reporter, media scientist, and speaker for Deutsche Welle TV[8] (DW) and N-tv.

In 2017 she completed her master's degree in media studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin, majoring in the topic of "Framing in Journalism".

Among her previous guests are actor Jürgen Vogel, boxer Axel Schulz, boxing world champion Regina Halmich and chief editor of ICON Inga Griese such as actor Ken Duken, marathon twins Anna und Lisa Hahner and Olympic champions like Kevin Kuske, Matthias Steiner and Eric Franke.