Arthur Canario (born in Brooklyn, New York)[2] is a former nationally ranked judo practitioner and collegiate football player for Long Island University at CW Post.
[6][7] When he began, at the Queens Judo Center in New York, his coach, Hank Kraft, said he had "two left feet".
[8] At the 1965 New York Yudanshakai Junior Tournament, held at the Prospect Park YMCA, he placed third in the 16-year-old unlimited category.
[5] He was ranked as one of the top 3 judo fighters in the United States in 1971,[5] and won the national heavyweight title that year over Charles Hooks.
Two years later, in 2008, he won the United States Judo Association's Hall of Fame Award for Outstanding Male Masters Competitor.