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Joshua Hagen is a Canadian judoka and the High Performance Coach and Director of Development for Judo Saskatchewan.From 2020 to 2023 he was the Executive Director and Head Coach for the Northwest Territories Judo Association, and he was the judo analyst on the CBC's Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and Paris 2024 Olympic Games broadcast teams.
[1] [2] He also played a major role in the development of judo in Saskatchewan, serving as the chief instructor at six clubs and training 22 students to shodan (1st dan) in the province from 1953 to 1968. [3] Since retirement from Memorial University LeGal has moved to Vancouver Island and serves as an instructor at the Nanaimo Judo Club. [4]
The formal name of the non-profit organization is the Saskatchewan Kodokan Black Belt Association, but is more commonly known as Judo Saskatchewan. The organization holds several regional competitions each season, four provincial tournaments, a closed provincial championships and a one primary annual shiai (tournament) called the Sask Open.
This is a list of prominent Canadian judoka, including members of the Judo Canada Hall of Fame, lifetime members of Judo Canada, kōdansha (high dan-holders), all participants in the Olympics, Paralympics, and World Judo Championships, and coaches for those competitions.
Frazer Will (born May 10, 1982 in Star City, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian judoka, who won gold medals at the 2006 and 2007 Pan American Judo Championships, the 2007 Chinese Open and four national championships in the lightweight (60 kg) division.
Judo is a Japanese martial art and combat sport founded by Jigoro Kano (1860 – 1938) in 1882. It was introduced to Canada by Japanese migrants in the early twentieth century, first in British Columbia and then in the Prairies, Ontario, and Quebec as Japanese Canadians who had been expelled from the Pacific coast during the Second World War resettled in other provinces.
Ewan Beaton (born July 13, 1969, in Edmonton, Alberta) is a male judoka from Canada.. He claimed the silver medal in the Men's Bantamweight (– 60 kg) division at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba.
The Saskatchewan Summer Games and Saskatchewan Winter Games are biennial multi-sport events held in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The governing body for the Saskatchewan Games is the Saskatchewan Games Council , a non-profit organization who has held responsibility for organizing the Games since 2006.