Shori Hamada all but wraps up spot on Japan's Olympic judo team
Shori Hamada virtually guaranteed herself a spot at her first Olympic Games after capturing gold at the Dusseldorf Grand Slam on Sunday. Hamada, the 2018 world champion and 2019 runner-up, won all five of her bouts in the women's 78-kg division by ippon and defeated ...
Grand Slam win keeps Shohei Ono on track to Olympic title defense
Shohei Ono captured gold at the Dusseldorf Grand Slam for the third straight year on Saturday, earning a decisive victory in a bid to defend his Olympic title on home soil this summer. Ono defeated South Korea's An Chang-rim in the men's 73-kg final for ...
Japan won three gold medals Friday on the opening day of the Dusseldorf Grand Slam, with siblings Uta and Hifumi Abe both topping the podium. Nineteen-year-old sensation Uta claimed the women's 52-kg division gold with victory over French rival Amandine Buchard, while 22-year-old Hifumi won ...
Japan wins three more golds on second day of Dusseldorf Grand Slam
Olympic gold medalist Shohei Ono defeated countryman Masashi Ebinuma in the men's 73-kg division final as Japan won three gold medals on Saturday, the second day of the Dusseldorf Grand Slam. Ono won his fourth Grand Slam gold medal by claiming a yusei victory over ...
Olympic gold medalist Mashu Baker will skip this week's Dusseldorf Grand Slam due to a right hamstring injury, the All Japan Judo Federation said Tuesday. Baker, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic champion in the men's 90-kilogram division, will miss the three-day meet in Germany. ...
