Ron Angus (born 16 November 1956, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ) is an author, judo coach, and a public speaker on physical fitness. He is a Rokkudan 6th degree black belt in judo and has taught and studied the sport in 15 countries. He lives in Burlington, Ontario and is married to Tracy Angus, also an international judo competitor and coach, having represented Canada over a 22-year period. He has also competed in sombo in which he was at one pint ranked third in the world.[1]
Angus has acted as tournament director for the Ontario International Judo Championships, and ran the Full Circle Judo Club.[2]
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World Judo Championships 1989 Yugoslavia,
Shiroki Cup
1986 Commonwealth Games
1988 Pan American Championships
1988 Francophone Games
Commonwealth Championships: 1993 Ireland (3rd), 1995 Malta (3rd)
Ron has won numerous national and international medals including:
British Open 2nd
US Open 2nd
Scandinavian Open 3rd
European Team Championships 5th
Canada 3rd
1991 World Sambo Wrestling Championships 3rd
1992 World Games – Sambo Wrestling 3rd
1994 World Amateur Sumo Championships
Ron was on the British judo team from 1979-1984.
During his Judo career Ron has trained under many great coaches and with many world champions.
Ron has also competed in or trained in Great Britain, Australia, Japan, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Hungry, Malta, USA, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Finland, Yugoslavia, Italy, Argentina, Denmark, Madagascar, Morocco, Austria, New Zealand and France.
Ron is presently part of the Provincial N.C.C.P. Committee.
Ron has authored "Competitive Judo" for Human Kinetics' Judo series. ISBN 0-7360-5744-7.
Ron is the creator of Judo Ontario's Judo Jiu-jitsu programme, which has as its aim making Judo more popular through: