Japan's judoka brought the curtain down on the world championships and brought the home crowd to its feet on Sunday by clinching their third-straight mixed-team gold medal.Japan clinched victory over France in the final when Shori Hamada avenged her loss in the women's 78-kilogram final to Madeleine Malonga by ippon. It was the second-straight year that these two nations had met in the final.The win on the final day of the eight-day competition at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan left Japan with five gold medals. The men's and women's teams each won two.Japan swept past South Korea in the quarterfina…READ FULL ARTICLE
