Judo standouts Funa Tonaki, Naohisa Takato set lofty goals for 2020 Games
Funa Tonaki and Naohisa Takato aim to give the Japan national judo team a boost by winning gold medals on July 25, when the judo competition kicks off at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Tonaki and Takato were among the 12 additional judoka named to the ...
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 ...
Naohisa Takato defends under-60 kg title at world championships
Naohisa Takato earned his second straight gold medal and Funa Tonaki picked up a silver to boost Japan into an early lead at the World Judo Championships, which kicked off Thursday. Takato successfully defended his men's under-60 kg weight class title and became a three-time ...
Naohisa Takato, Ai Shishime claim titles on first day of Zagreb Grand Prix
Reigning world champions Naohisa Takato and Ai Shishime each won their respective divisions on Friday to give Japan an early lead at the Zagreb Grand Prix, a three-day judo tournament in Croatia. Takato earned a sixth straight win on the International Judo Federation circuit after ...
Judoka Naohisa Takato and Funa Tonaki won gold medals in their respective categories, while Ami Kondo settled for bronze as the world championships got underway Monday. Takato, the 2013 world champion and bronze medalist at last year's Rio Olympics, downed Pavel Petrikov of the Czech ...
Rio Games bronze medalist Naohisa Takato won the men's 60-kg category at the Grand Slam Paris on Saturday, while fellow Japanese Hifumi Abe and Soichi Hashimoto also claimed the 66- and 73-kg categories, respectively. It was a strong showing by the Japanese men. Takato won ...
Judoka Kondo wins Japan's first medal of Rio Games
Ami Kondo won Japan's first medal of the 2016 Rio Olympics when she beat Mongolia's Urantsetseg Munkhbat to claim bronze in the women's 48-kg judo competition on Saturday. And Naohisa Takato soon followed with a bronze of his own, recovering from defeat in the quarterfinals ...
