# Aaron Wolf

Aaron Phillip Wolf (ウルフ・アロン, Wurufu Aron, born 25 February 1996) is a Japanese judoka who won a gold medal at the 2017 World Judo Championships in Budapest and a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He is the son of a Japanese mother, Mikako, and an American father, James, who teaches English at a Japanese university.Wolf became the first athlete of U.S. descent to win the All-Japan Openweight Judo Championships with his victory on 29 April, 2019. He successfully qualified to represent Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and won the gold medal in the 100 kg competition at the 2020 Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.