Judo: Kagawa wins 1st nat'l open-weight title, Abe loses in 2nd round

Daigo Kagawa won the national open-weight judo championship for the first time in his career, defeating Hisayoshi Harasawa in the final on Tuesday.Judo fans closely watched Hifumi Abe to see how the two-time Olympic champion in the 66-kilogram class fared against bigger opponents. He was eliminated in the second round, losing to Taiyo Suzuki, who weighs 120 kilograms.In the title-clinching contest between the two over-100-kilogram judoka, Kagawa won via a yusei decision in the one-day event at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan arena.Harasawa, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic silver medalist, finished r…READ FULL ARTICLE