Colton Brown | |
Birth Date: | 8 October 1991 |
Birth Place: | New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S. |
Country: | United States |
Weight Class: | 90 kg |
Worlds Rank: | R16 |
Worlds Year: | 2019 |
Worlds Weight: | Men's 90 kg |
Regionals Type: | AM |
Regionals Rank: | 2 |
Regionals Year: | 2016 |
Regionals Year2: | 2017 |
Olympics Rank: | R16 |
Olympics Year: | 2016 |
Olympics Weight: | Men's 90 kg |
Olympics Year2: | 2020 |
Olympics Weight2: | Men's 90 kg |
Updated: | November 29, 2022 |
Colton Brown (born October 8, 1991) is an American judoka.
Brown competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the men's 90 kg.[1] Brown stated that the Olympic selection was a "dream come true" and that "It felt as though a lifetime of work was finally paying off.".[2] He competed again at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where he was the only American man in the judo competitions. He was eliminated in the round of 16 by Mihael Žgank of Turkey.
Colton Brown begun his career in judo at the age of 17. His father was a judoka and Brown would go with his father to practice.[3]