Robert Berland

Robert Berland intrigues me precisely because judo is so often framed as Japan's preserve, and here is a kid from Chicago who reached the Olympic stage in it. Born in 1961, he pursued the sport in an era when American judo was a genuine outsider's pursuit, which to me makes his achievement all the more striking. I have real admiration for these cross-cultural devotees who carry a foreign tradition to the top.

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Name (English)

Robert Berland

Name (Japanese)

ロバート・バーランド

Reading

ろばーと・ばーらんど

Born

November 5, 1961 (age 65)

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Height

188 cm

Occupation

judoka

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Ox

High school

Stephen Tyng Mather High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Berland
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7342053

Tags

• Illinois
• judoka

Last updated

November 5, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.