Japan captures third straight mixed-team gold medal at world championships
Japan's judoka brought the curtain down on the world championships and brought the home crowd to its feet on Sunday by clinching their third-straight mixed-team gold medal. Japan clinched victory over France in the final when Shori Hamada avenged her loss in the women's 78-kg ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rio Olympic judo champ Shohei Ono among national invitational winners
Shohei Ono, Olympic champion in the men's 73-kg division, defeated 2017 world champion Soichi Hashimoto to win his third title at the national invitational weight class judo championships on Sunday. The victory landed Ono a spot on Japan's team to this year's world championships, to ...
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 ...
Determined Shohei Ono battles past An Chang-rim to earn 73-kg gold
Shohei Ono put on a show at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, winning four of the five matches by ippon. By doing so, he nabbed a gold medal in the men's 73-kg judo competition. The fashion in which he earned the gold in ...
Shohei Ono added an Asian Games gold to his collection of honors on Thursday when he beat An Chang-rim of South Korea in a tight contest. The 73-kg division victory came in dramatic fashion with the 26-year-old putting his opponent to the mat in the ...
Japan judo coach Inoue unveils new-look national squad for worlds
National team coach Kosei Inoue is upbeat over the depth of Japanese judo and heated competition among domestic athletes as 10 of his 18 selected members will make their world championships debut in Budapest starting in August. Only four of Japan's male and two female ...
Judoka Shohei Ono will compete in the open-weight national championships on April 29, sources close to him said Saturday. Ono, who made his nationals debut in 2014 a year after he claimed a world title, won his first match before he was beaten by Takeshi ...
Rio gold medalist Ono to skip invitational championships, will likely miss worlds
Men's 73-kg Rio Olympic gold medalist Shohei Ono will sit out the national invitational weight class championships in Fukuoka next month to focus on his academic studies, the All Japan Judo Federation said Wednesday. His withdrawal from the April 1-2 invitational meet at Fukuoka Kokusai ...
Shohei Ono won the International Judo Federation's Judoka of the Year Award for men on Friday after capturing his first Olympic medal in Rio de Janeiro, where he triumphed in the men's 73-kg category. Ono, 24, received 2,166 votes on the IJF Facebook page, ahead ...
Japan's judo gold medalists praise country's efforts with eye on 2020 Games
Japan's Rio Olympic judo gold medalists believe their country has reclaimed its rightful place as the sport's world No. 1, but warned the pressure to succeed at the 2020 Tokyo Games will be enormous. "Our results in Rio have increased expectations on judo toward the ...
