PARIS, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Frenchman Teddy Riner claiming his fifth Olympic gold medal in a dramatic mixed team final was the highlight of the judo competition and will go down as one of the great ...

Israeli judokas Inbar Lanir and Peter Paltchik picked up silver and bronze medals on Thursday, their country's first medals of the Paris Olympics. The judo competition has been marred by allegations ...

The Olympic 100 kg judo competition was marked by a bizarre incident in which a Georgian competitor was disqualified after unsportsmanlike behavior towards Frenchman and favorite Teddy Riner. Riner’s ...

Organizers said the Championships highlight one of the fastest growing youth martial arts in the country.

—Teddy Riner, France: The world's most famous active judoka attempts to cap his incredible career with a record-tying third individual Olympic gold medal in front of his home fans. Now 35, Riner took ...

Boca Raton siblings Maximo Penaranda and Luna Penaranda are making their mark as judo players. Luna, 6, and Maximo, 7, started judo in December 2021 at the Ki-itsu-sai National Training Center in ...

PARIS (AP) — The stands at Champs de Mars filled up quickly. One fan dressed in a white martial arts uniform waved a French flag back and forth. A woman next to him held up a poster with the face of ...

There will be about 700 athletes competing in judo on Saturday, March 14 and Sunday, March 15, accompanied by 168 coaches and officials at the Matsuru Pacific International Judo Championships. The ...

A pair of Japanese siblings each took home a gold medal in the judo competition on Sunday. Uta Abe won the gold medal in the women’s 52-kg on Sunday after she beat France’s Amandine Buchard in the ...

Bahamian judoka Karra Hanna is always training for a next judo opportunity, but recently she set time aside to obtain an International Judo Federation (IJF) level one certificate, granting her ...