Teddy Riner came up big for the host nation against Tatsuru Saito to deny Japan a gold medal in the final judo event of the Paris...
A native of Nagasaki, 30-year-old Takanori Nagase became the first Olympian to repeat as a gold medalist in judo's middleweight category.
Reigning Olympic champion Uta Abe received the International Judo Federation's top individual accolade for women for the second straight year.
