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the Golden team of Japan is BACK

30 Aug 2015 18:10
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The team of Japan is fully back in the top of judo. Forget 2012, they’re back. With the double in the team event, for the first time since 2002 and six gold medals, four silver medals and five bronze medals the team impressed like never before.

Year

City

men

women

1997

Osaka

bronze

bronze

1998

Minsk

gold

5th

2002

Basel

gold

gold

2006

Paris

5th

bronze

2007

Beijing

gold

bronze

2008

Tokyo

5th

gold

2010

Antalya

gold

bronze

2011

Paris

bronze

silver

2013

Rio de Janeiro

bronze

gold

2014

Chelyabinsk

gold

bronze

2015

Astana

gold

gold

 

The Japanese completed the aim to take World Championships in all 14 weight categories. Takanori Nagase closed the gap of that single missing world title.

Category             Last World Champion

U60kg                  2013: Naohisa Takato

U66kg                  2014: Masashi Ebinuma

U73kg                  2015: Shohei Ono

U81kg                  2015: Takanori Nagase, the first ever

U90kg                  2005: Hiroshi Izumi

U100kg                2015: Ryunosuke Haga

O100kg                2003: Yasuyuki Muneta

U48kg                  2014: Ami Kondo

U52kg                  2015: Misato Nakamura

U57kg                  2015: Kaori Matsumoto

U63kg                  2010: Yoshie Ueno

U70kg                  2003: Masae Ueno

U78kg                  2015: Mami Umeki

O78kg                  2010: Mika Sugimoto

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