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Montreal 1976, Open: Haruki Uemura (JPN)
The Open weight division holds a special place in the hearts of Japanese judoka. Haruki Uemura was 13 years old when he watched on TV the 1964 Olympics…
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Montreal 1976, -63kg: Hector Rodriguez (CUB)
The top favorite for the lightest weight category in Montreal was Japan’s morote-seoi-nage specialist Yoshiharu Minami, a double World Champion (1973…
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Montreal 1976, -70kg: Vladimir Nevzorov (URS)
In the 1970s, it was very rare that a Japanese was not the favorite for a gold medal but this was the case in the -70kg division in Montreal. The top…
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Montreal 1976, -80kg: Isamu Sonoda (JPN)
Japan’s top favorite at -80kg was not in Montreal. Shozo Fujii, the talented morote-seoi-nage specialist was already a triple World Champion by 1976 but…
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Montreal 1976, -93kg: Kazuhiro Ninomiya (JPN)
Kazuhiro Ninomiya was a top heavyweight champion from Japan, and indeed he was the World Champion in the Open weight division, but that was from 1973…
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Montreal 1976, +93kg: Sergei Novikov (URS)
The Japanese did not do so well in the 1972 Munich Olympics, winning only three out of six gold medals. For any other country, winning 50% of the medals…
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Munich 1972, Open: Willem Ruska (NED)
There were three main contenders in the Open weight division: Willem Ruska of the Netherlands, Vitaly Kuznetsov of the Soviet Union and Masatoshi…
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