The 2020 New Jersey Judo Open Championships was held Saturday at High Tech High School. 306 judoka competed ranging in age from 5- 59. The state competition has been going on for more than 40 years ...

Judo is always a must-watch event at the Olympics, but this was particularly true in Tokyo. Japan is the sport's birthplace, and numerous Japanese judokas had the chance to win Olympic gold on their ...

The International Judo Federation (IJF) has been forced to call time on the coronavirus-hit 2020 World Judo Tour season - less than a month after it returned. IJF President Marius Vizer said it was a ...

TOKYO (AP) -- Just when Tokyo got a boost in its campaign to host the 2020 Olympics, a judo coach abuse scandal surfaced within the Japanese sporting culture and threatens to undermine the bid. Tokyo ...

Jim Hrbek, a 66-year old former Olympic coach, has trained some of the nation’s top judokas — international competitors, national and state champions — at his Universal Judo martial arts studio.

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 ...

Judo may seem like an individual sport. Truth is, it has always been a team sport. It can only be practiced or performed with partners – that is, as part of a team. Thus it is only natural that judo ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Double Olympic judo champion Teddy Riner believes that staging the Tokyo Games in 2021 will put all athletes on an equal footing after the sports extravaganza was postponed for a ...

She’s her sport’s youngest ever winner and has never been defeated outside of her native Japan. But judo phenomenon Uta Abe is just getting started. Only gold will do for the 17-year-old, with both ...

For Kosei Inoue, reaching the pinnacle of his sport is just the start of the journey. His team might have won 12 of the 14 gold medals on offer at the recent Tokyo Grand Slam, but the Japanese judo ...