Shori Hamada, Aaron Wolf reach podium but miss top spots at world championships
Defending champion Shori Hamada settled for the silver medal in the women's 78-kg division at the World Judo Championships on Friday, while 2017 men's 100-kg champion Aaron Wolf came away with a bronze. Hamada, who had won each of her first four matches by ippon, ...
Shoichiro Mukai falls just short of men's 90-kg division title at world championships
Shoichiro Mukai powered through the men's 90-kg division at the World Judo Championships on Thursday until losing in the final, while compatriot Chizuru Arai, the defending women's 70-kg champion, was knocked out early. In the men’s 90-kg final, Dutchman Noel van 't End scored ...
Shohei Ono nabs third world title; Tsukasa Yoshida claims silver
Reigning Olympic champion Shohei Ono won his third title in the men's 73-kg division at the World Judo Championships on Tuesday, while fellow Tsukasa Yoshida settled for silver in the women's 57-kg class. Ono defeated Azerbaijan's Rustam Orujov in the final with an uchimata inner-thigh ...
Uta Abe defends women's 52-kg title at judo worlds, defeats Russia's Natalia Kuziutina
Japan's Uta Abe defended her title in the women's 52-kg division at the judo world championships on Monday. Joshiro Maruyama won the men's 66-kg class in his world championship debut on the second day of the weeklong tournament. He defeated Abe's brother and two-time defending ...
Japan's national men's judo team coach Kosei Inoue said he will be using the world championships starting Sunday at Tokyo's famed Nippon Budokan as a springboard to success at the 2020 Summer Games. "It's really important to gain momentum for the Olympics, so I want ...
Takanori Nagase won the gold medal in the men's 81-kg division at the Zagreb Grand Prix on Saturday, the second day of the three-day judo competition in the Croatian capital. Nagase, a former world champion and bronze medalist at the 2016 Rio Olympics, scored an ...
Natsumi Tsunoda won the women's 52-kg division on Friday at the Zagreb Grand Prix. Tsunoda, who claimed gold at last year's Asian Games in Indonesia, beat South Korea's Park Da-sol in the final by scoring a waza-ari on the opening day of the three-day tournament. Tsunoda, ...
Aaron Wolf, Wakaba Tomita give Japan two more medals on final day of judo meet
Aaron Wolf and Wakaba Tomita claimed two more medals for Japan at the Budapest Grand Prix on Sunday to wrap up the three-day meet in the Hungarian capital. Wolf, who will attempt to win a second world championship title at this year's tournament at Tokyo's ...
Masako Doi beats Ketleyn Quadros to claim first judo Grand Prix title in Budapest
Masako Doi won her first Grand Prix title on Saturday to give Japan a third gold medal and the lead on the second day of the Budapest Grand Prix. In the women's 63-kg final, Doi beat 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Ketleyn Quadros in golden score ...
North Korea applies to compete at judo world championships in Japan: source
North Korea has applied to send athletes to this summer's world judo championships in Tokyo, a source close to the matter said Saturday. Even though Japan has no diplomatic relations and forbids North Koreans from entering the country in principle as part of its sanctions, ...
Takanori Nagase, Soichi Hashimoto grab gold at Montreal Grand Prix
Takanori Nagase and Soichi Hashimoto each earned a gold medal on the second day of action at the Montreal Judo Grand Prix on Saturday. In the men's 81-kg class, Nagase, who won bronze at the Rio Olympics, scored five consecutive ippon wins at the Montreal ...
Aaron Wolf captured his first national judo championship on Monday, after beating Hirotaka Kato in the final of the open-weight tournament. Wolf, the 2017 men's 100-kg judo world champion, claimed an extra-time, yusei victory over Kato, who won the tournament seven years ago. The 23-year-old ...
