Tadahiro Nomura was born December 10, 1974 to a Judo family in Koryo, Japan. Nomura’s grandfather ran a local Judo school, his father had coached 1984 Olympic gold medalist Shinji Hosokawa ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tadahiro Nomura is convinced he failed to have a chance to shoot for his fourth straight Olympic gold medal. But he's not quite done yet on the tatami. Nomura, who was left off the list of the ...

Japan's Tadahiro Nomura is widely considered the greatest judoka in Olympic history, having won gold medals in the under 60 kilogram category at Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000 and Athens. Nomura is ...

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 ...

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.

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.