Teddy Riner was trying to win gold in the over 100-kilogram class to tie Tadahiro Nomura’s record for consecutive golds. By Ken Belson TOKYO — Teddy Riner, perhaps the world’s most famous ...

Gaba won with a hand throw 4:52 into golden score. After joining Japan's Tadahiro Nomura as the only judokas to win three individual gold medals, Riner added his second gold from the mixed team ...

TOKYO: Japanese fans hailed three-time Olympic champion Tadahiro Nomura as a “wonderful judoka” on Tuesday as his retirement because of injuries prompted an emotional response. Nomura ...

Two of Japan’s most famous Olympians — three-time wrestling gold medalist Saori Yoshida and three-time judo gold medalist Tadahiro Nomura — received the flame for the lighting ceremony.

Gaba won with a hand throw 4:52 into golden score. After joining Japan's Tadahiro Nomura as the only judokas to win three individual gold medals, Riner added his second gold from the mixed team ...

Winners of Olympic judo medals: Men's Extra-Lightweight Advertisement 1996: Gold - Tadahiro Nomura, Japan; Silver - Girolamo Giovinazzo, Italy; Bronze - Dorjpalam Narmandakh, Mongolia, and Bronze ...

Two of Japan’s most famous Olympians — three-time wresting gold medalist Saori Yoshida and three-time judo gold medalist Tadahiro Nomura — received the flame for the lighting ceremony.

Here's the moment of the big reveal! The designer Tokujin Yoshioka (L) and Torch Relay Ambassador Tadahiro Nomura unveil the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games torch for the torch relay in Tokyo.

Three-time Olympic gold medallists, Judo champion, Tadahiro Nomura and wrestler Saori Yoshida lit the cauldron together. Organisers say at this stage, the Games will still go on.

Before he became a triple Olympic champion in 2004, Tadahiro Nomura arrived as an Olympic first-timer at the Atlanta 1996 Games. Check out how the Japanese Judo legend did in his Olympic debut.