Background
Takata was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Takata was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
He attended San Jose State University and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
He represented the United States and comes from the state of Hawaii. He currently runs a dojo in Hawaii called Hawaii Judo Academy. The club he belongs to is the United States of America Judo National Training Site at the Olympic Training Center.
He is coached by Eddie Liddie.
He represented the United States at both the Junior and Senior World Championships in the 60 kg division as well as winning National Championship, Pan American and United States. Open Titles. In 2004, he moved up to the 66 kg division.
Taylor Takata has held the #1 United States. ranking in judo this year after several years of moving among the rankings. He placed 9th in the 66 kg division.
What Takata has said about the Olympics:
"lieutenant"s been great to be here and experience the Olympics and fight the best guys in the world.".