Born in Guelph, Ontario, Nicholas Tritton currently resides in Montreal as a member of the Canadian National Judo Team. He is currently the overall number one ranked male competitor in Canada and is ranked in the top 10 in the world for the -73kg weight category.

Nicholas first started judo at the age of 10 in a cleared out classroom at an elementary school in Lanark, Ontario, which is located about one hour west of Ottawa. At the young age of 10, Nicholas not only showed interest in judo but in many other sports that would fit into his already busy schedule. His eventual sport would obviously be judo, but at the time he did not know and he did not want to limit himself to just one sport. Nicholas played on a variety of teams, from the town’s Division 1 soccer team to the Perth Stingrays swim team. He was also a member and starter for his high school basketball team at P.D.C.I. The team won 5 consecutive championships and an E.O.S.S.A title, where Nicholas lead the team in points scored in the final game. In addition, he was team captain of the 2-time championship winning football team and was selected to play in the Eastern Ontario All-Star game.

Around the age of 16, Nicholas could no longer continue with all of the sports he was involved with and decided to narrow it down to one sport outside of his high school teams. His choice led him to pursue his dream of making the Canadian Olympic Team in judo, but despite his decision to focus on judo alone he thought it would be a good idea to pick up wrestling once a week as a cross training activity to compliment his judo, as both judo and wrestling are very similar. After wrestling for less than 4 months, Nicholas claimed his first National Championship for wrestling and went on to win 4 Gold, 3 Silver and 2 Bronze medals at the National Championships in both Greco and Freestyle Wrestling.

Growing up in a small town, Nicholas diligently traveled from club to club all over the region to get as much exposure as possible. Eventually he ended up training at the Takahashi Dojo in Ottawa before his final and current residing place in Montreal at the National Training Centre (NTC). Although Nicholas was not even ranked on the Senior National Team, his father, Mark Tritton thought it would be a good idea to send him down to Montreal for a year to see how far his son could go training full-time with the national team. Through perseverance and hard work, Nicholas was ranked number one overall only after a year of training at the NTC and hasn’t looked back since. Nicholas’ personal best achievements to date are the 2005 World Cup Gold in Prague, 2007 Pan American Games Bronze, 2007 World Championships 9th, 2008 Olympic Team Member, 2009 Tokyo Grand Slam Bronze, 2010 Grand Slam Moscow 5th, 2010 World Cup Miami Gold, and the 2010 Tokyo Grand Slam Bronze. On an interesting note, after his 2009 Tokyo Grand Slam medal, Nicholas becam the 4th Canadian male to ever medal at that particular event and the first Canadian male to win back to back medals, due to his medal repeat at the same event.