Innovated by Japanese silver medalist judoka Naoya Ogawa. This is a list of highly notable judoka (judo practitioners). Nakayama's father was Naomichi Nakayama, an army physician and a "judoka" (practitioner of judo). Before his professional mixed martial arts career, Akiyama was a decorated judoka. Tomita was the first Kodokan judoka and a close friend of Kano. Johnson instead fought Japanese Judoka Yoshiyuki Yoshida at UFC 104. Parisyan's first Bellator fight was against fellow judoka Rick Hawn at Bellator 95. Glover was a psychology major and a champion judoka. At that time, there were few graduated Kodokan judoka. Sadollah faced Korean judoka, Dong Hyun Kim, at UFC 114. Before taking up MMA, he was a highly accomplished judoka. Twelve U.S. judoka (seven males and five females) qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics. Eight British judoka (two men and six women) qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was followed a day later by another judoka, Oren Smadja, who won bronze. There is only one Indian judoka at the London Olympics.