The 2010 New York Open will be held Sunday October 17, 2010. This year the tournament will be held at Hunter College located at 68th Street and Lexington Ave, West Building.

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By Nicole Jomantas - USA Judo March 10, 2009
Seven months after the Olympic Games in Beijing, Travis Stevens (Wakefield, Mass. / NYAC / USA Judo National Team FORCE) found himself facing 2008 Olympic Champion Ole Bischof (GER) for the second time when he advanced to the 81kg finals of the New York Open on Sunday in New York City.

Stevens and Bischof fought a close match in Beijing with Stevens losing by a pair of penalties in the third-round match. Bischof, a former European Champion, would go on to win the gold while Stevens showed the world he was a player to watch with a ninth-place finish in his Olympic debut.
Bischof and Stevens met again in front of a home crowd for Stevens at the New York Open. This time both players kept up a fast pace for the five-minute regulation period before sending the match to Golden Score (sudden death overtime) where Stevens went in for a fireman\\\'s carry and was countered by Bischof for a yuko (quarter-point score) that ended the match and gave Stevens a silver medal in his first New York Open final. In its twenty-sixth year, the Open is a USA Judo Senior C-Level point tournament for U.S. players and a B-Level tournament for international players.

Twenty-year-old Nick Delpopolo (Wakefield, Mass. / NYAC / USA Judo National Team FORCE) won his first major senior medal at the New York Open when he placed third at the 2006 event. Now an experienced senior player, Delpopolo was poised to win his first major international gold medal in the 73kg division when he led his final match against former World medalist Krzysztof Wilkomirski (POL). Up by a throw for a waza-ari (half-point) score, Delpopolo was given his third penalty of the match with seven seconds on the clock that tied the score at a waza-ari each. In Golden Score, Delpopolo went in for a drop seoi nage (dropping shoulder throw) but Wilkomirski took him to the ground where he choked Delpopolo out for the win.

Garry St. Leger (Brooklyn, N.Y. / Legrosports Starrett) won a bronze medal in the 90kg division where he controlled his match against Wiktor Tworzydio (POL) who he threw first for a waza-ari and then for ippon.

Most Valuable Player of the Tournament honors were awarded at the end of the day to Bjorn Bachmann (GER) who won gold in the 100kg division.

For the first time, a womens team match was held between the United States and Japan which was won by the Japanese team.

Special awards were given to James Bregman who received the Lifetime Achievement Award and Team Japan who received the Appreciation Award.

This year's New York Open, some say, was the most exciting with some of the best judo ever seen in the hemisphere. Attended by 2008 Beijing Gold Medallist Ole Bishof from Germany, along with many other Olympians and world medallists, Mr. Bishoff won his division, taking home US$1,000 prize money. Other competitors include 17 from Japan, a full team from Canada, 5 from Poland, 9 from France, 9 from Germany, 6 from Great Britain, with Mongolia, Brazil, Russia, China, Columbia, Solvania, Czech, the Ukraine, the Netherlands, Equador, Guatmala, Kazakhstan also represnted.

The tournament directors are please to announce that the 26th annual New York Open will take place on Sunday, March 8, 2009. Make your plans now to attend!

Congratulations to Rusty Kanokogi, past recipient of the NYO Lifetime Achievement Award, on her latest honor, the "Emperor's Award of the Rising Sun", Japan's highest award given to a foreigner.

USA Judo is pleased to announce that the New York Open New York City, has been named as an International B Level Tournament.