Shinji Hosokawa

nihongo|Shinji Hosokawa|細川伸二|Hosokawa Shinji|extra=born on January 2 1960 in Ichinomiya, Hyogo, Japan is a retired Japanese judoka who won two olympic medals during the 1980s.

Biography

Hosokawa began judo in junior-high schoolcite news|publisher=Sankei Sports|url=http://www.sanspo.com/athens2004/history/gold/79.html|title=細川伸二－持ち前の強心臓で一気に勝ち抜く] , and won the Japanese inter-high school judo competition in 1977. He entered Tenri University in 1978, and continued his success by winning the college-level world judo championship in 1979 and 1980.

After graduating from Tenri University, he began work as a teacher for a school in Nara Prefecture in 1982. He was chosen as the -60 kg representative for the Japanese olympic judo team for the 1984 Summer Olympics, where he won a gold medal by defeating future gold medalist Kim Jae-Yup only 69 seconds into the match. He also won a gold medal at the 1985 World Judo Championships, but retired to concentrate on his work as a teacher. He restarted his judo career in 1987 with a silver medal at the 1987 World Judo Championships, and retired after finishing with a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Hosokawa has served as an instructor for the Japanese Olympic Committee since April, 1997, where he coached many lightweight judoka, most notably 3-time gold medalist Tadahiro Nomura, whose father was Hosokawa's coach during high school. He also coaches judo at Tenri University, and for the [http://www.judo.or.jp/ All Japan Judo Federation] .

Notes

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ee also

* List of judoka
* List of Olympic medalists in judo

References

External links

* [http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=HOSOKSHI01 Database Olympics]