The Iran Judo Federation called it’s suspension from international competition “unfair” after it was banned from all competitions for trying to make judoka Saeid Mollaei withdraw from the World Judo ...

Judo was the first sport to host medal events in Morocco at the Prince Moulay Abdallah Sports Complex. The Egyptians dominated the men's categories with four gold medals, including for 2009 World ...

The IJF and AJJF have agreed on a new set of colours to be used for the competition mats at the 2019 World Championships in Tokyo ©IJF The colour scheme, made up of a blue inside area and red outside ...

Saeid Mollaei should have been focusing on the defence of his World Judo Championship title. Instead, the Iranian judoka was fretting about his safety and his family’s safety. While competing in Tokyo ...

DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Saeid Mollaei has been in hiding since he left the Iranian judo team last month, saying he had been ordered to withdraw from the world championships on political grounds.

The International Judo Federation on Wednesday banned Iranian athletes from its events over the country’s policy to boycott matches with Israeli participants. The move comes after one of Iran’s top ...

Seven students from Port St. Lucie recently competed at the U.S. Open Judo Championship in Fort Lauderdale, with one participant bringing home a gold medal. Aubrey Genereux won gold in the girls ...

Still, regardless of the outcome at the Olympics, Harrison was ready to call it quits. She had been training in judo for 20 years and didn’t find much pleasure doing so anymore. “I wasn’t learning ...

Iran was suspended from international competition by the International Judo Federation (IJF) on Wednesday for putting pressure on one of its fighters to withdraw from the world judo championships to ...

Several students from the Goltz Judo program in Claremont won awards at the USA Judo Junior Olympic National Championships held in June in Anaheim. They are JoJo Forman, 13, of Upland, who won a gold ...

Olympic hopeful Jack Hatton, a member of the U.S. national judo team, died just four days after his 24th birthday, the sport's governing body announced Wednesday. Details of Hatton's death were not ...

TEL AVIV (JTA) — When he immigrated to Israel from his native Ukraine in the early 1990s, judo master Igor Romanitsky was already resigned to quitting the sport professionally and pursuing a medical ...