Josh Katz

Katz was born on 29 December 1997 Katz's mother is former judoka Kerrye Katz, who competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics, when judo was a demonstration event for women, and came in seventh; she also won the 1985 Oceania Judo Championship in U66k and 11 Australian national championships. His father Robert was a judoka on the Australian national team and a national judo coach for Australia at both the 1988 Seoul Olympics and the 2016 Rio Olympics. His older brother, Nathan Katz, also competed for Australia in judo at the Rio Olympics. The two brothers have been training partners since they were children. He also lived in Northmead, New South Wales, and moved to Melbourne in 2022 to train at the newly opened national training centre. He is 167 cm (5 ft 6 in) tall and weighs 60 kg (132 lb). ==Judo career==

Katz's judo club is the Budokan Judo Club, in Castle Hill, New South Wales, and his coach is his brother Nathan Katz. He also won the 2022 Commonwealth Games bronze medal and the 2023 Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships silver medal. He also was named the 2010 New South Wales Junior Boy of the Year and received the 2010 Hills Shire Times Young Achiever Award. He was eliminated in the second round by Diyorbek Urozboev of Uzbekistan, who went on to win the bronze medal, and came in 17th in the tournament. He was Australia’s youngest-ever male judoka to compete at an Olympic Games, and was also the youngest judoka from any nation at those Games. 2017–23 Katz won the 2017 Canberra Junior ACT Cup. Competing in judo at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the men's 60 kg in Birmingham, England, in August, he won a bronze medal, after not having competed for six months due to injuries. In 2022 he also won the Australian national championship, a bronze medal at the European Open in February in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; a silver medal at the European Open in February in Warsaw, Poland, and a bronze medal at the 2022 Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships in April in Lima, Peru. Katz had a second shoulder surgery in March 2023. At the April 2024 Pan American and Oceania Championships he returned to competition, and came in fifth. In July 2024 he competed again in the 2024 Paris Olympics at Men's 60 kg and was defeated in the first round, 1–0. ==References==