"Now, I'm hooked," she says. She returned Monday from the Pan-Am Masters Judo Championship held in Montreal, where she competed against eight other women. Tartuffe earned two gold medals and one ...

Rena “Rusty” Kanokogi, a Coney Island scrapper who will always be remembered as the Mother of Woman’s Judo, has died following a prolonged bout with leukemia. She was 74. Her daughter ...

UFC Hall of Famer Ronda Rousey and current bantamweight contender Kayla Harrison squared off on the Judo mats at the 2005 U.S ...

It's time for StoryCorps and a look at an Olympic pioneer in women's judo. It's a sport that wasn't allowed at the Olympics until 1988 when martial arts champion Rusty Kanokogi threatened to sue.

Farhad Hazrati, who used to be the coach of Afghanistan's women's judo team before the Taliban regime disbanded it in 2021, picks up the phone and smiles at the on-screen display which shows three ...

Lee Hye-kyeong, right, competes in the round of 32 in the women's -48-kilogram judo contest at the 2024 Paris Olympics against Sweden's Tara Babulfath at the Champ-de-Mars Arena in Paris on Saturday.

This file photo shows Uta Abe, right, competing during the women's 52-kilogram final at judo's national championships at Fukuoka Kokusai Center on April 5, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo ...

Air Force Women clinched the overall championship at the 61st National Judo Championship 2024, marking a historic win after a decade. The championship was held at the Sri Lanka Judo Association in ...