PARIS, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Japan's judo veteran Hifumi Abe successfully defended his Olympic title in the men's 66kg category at Paris 2024, while Diyora Keldiyorova of Uzbekistan claimed the ...

Japan has won nine gold medals, two silvers and one bronze in the judo in Tokyo - a record haul since it became an Olympic event for men in 1964 and for women in 1992. The new teams event meant a ...

Japan won 12 medals in Judo during the Tokyo Olympics, and that included 9 golds. That was as total a dominance as ever in a ...

Japan, the birthplace of judo, dominates the all-time Olympic medal table. Japan's 48 gold medals and 96 medals overall are far and away the most of any country. France (16 gold medals, 57 total ...

Japan regularly dominates the Olympics judo medal table, but federation president Yasuhiro Yamashita told Agence France-Presse that the values of the sport are being lost as parents and coaches ...

At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the first time judo was included in the competition, Japan won four medals, including three golds, while France won none. France won its first medals in judo—three ...

Japanese Masaki Yamaoka and Moroccan ... fo Brazil competes against Gabriella Rivera of the U.S. in Judo at the Australia Youth Olympic Festival, in Sydney, Australia, 2013.

Chizuru Arai is the latest Japanese judoka to claim a medal at the Tokyo Olympics, a gold one at that, in the women's 70kg class ... Naohisa Takato, Hifumi Abe, Shohei Ono, and Takanori Nagase had ...

She turned heads as she made her way to watch judo at the Champ-de-Mars Arena dressed in the traditional Japanese outfit and 'hachimaki' headband she always wears to Olympic events. Children and ...

(ATR) The JOC wants to win record gold medal haul at the 2020 Olympics. Ian Thorpe says targets harm athletes.

Former Japan Football Association President Kozo Tashima has emerged as a candidate to replace outgoing Japanese Olympic ...