Name: Jack Yonezuka

Weight Category: 73 kg

Club: NYAC / Cranford JKC

Birthdate: May 20, 2003

Career Highlights

Current Senior World Ranking: 20
2023 Junior World Silver Medalist
2022 Junior World Bronze Medalist
2022 USA Judo Senior National Champion

International Judo Federation Competition History: Jack Yonezuka IJF Profile

Personal: At just 21 years old, Yonezuka will be the youngest member of the U.S. Olympic Judo Team in Paris. Yonezuka hails from one of the most storied families in USA Judo. He is the son of 1980 Olympian Nick Yonezuka and the grandson of two-time Olympic coach Yoshisada Yonezuka. Although Yonezuka’s grandfather passed away in 2014, the club he founded, Cranford Judo JKC, has produced nine Olympians from 1980 – 2021. Yonezuka made history as a junior, becoming the first U.S. man to win two medals at the Junior World Championships with bronze in 2022 and silver in 2023. In March of 2024, Yonezuka won his first World Tour medal with a bronze at the Upper Austria Grand Prix, becoming the second U.S. man to win a Grand Prix medal during the Paris quadrennium.

Competition Highlights:

2024:

Bronze - Upper Austria Grand Prix
Fifth - Senior Pan American-Oceania Championships
Seventh - Dushanbe Grand Slam

2023:

Gold - Tunis African Open
Gold - Tunis Junior African Cup
Gold - Skopje Junior European Cup
Gold - Cordoba Senior Pan American Open
Gold - Cordoba Junior Pan American Open
Silver - Junior World Championships
Bronze - Perth Oceania Open
Fifth - Abu Dhabi Grand Slam
Fifth - Senior Pan American Championships
Seventh - Upper Austria Grand Prix

2022:

Gold - USA Judo Senior National Championships
Bronze - Junior World Championships
Bronze - USA Judo Junior Olympic Championships

2021:

Bronze - Guayaquil Pan American Open (66kg)

2020:

Gold - Cadet Pan American Championships (66kg)
Silver - Junior Pan American Championships (66kg)

2019:

Bronze - Cadet Pan American Championships (66kg)

2018:

Silver - Montreal Cadet Pan American Cup (60kg)
Bronze - USA Judo Youth National Championships (60kg)

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