Shinji Hosokawa
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Born | 2 January 1960 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Judoka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Judo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | –60 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 6 June 2023 |
Shinji Hosokawa (細川伸二, Hosokawa Shinji, born on 2 January 1960 in Ichinomiya, Hyogo, Japan) is a Japanese retired judoka who won two Olympic medals during the 1980s.
Biography
[edit]Hosokawa began judo in junior-high school,[1] and won the Japanese inter-high school judo competition in 1977. He entered Tenri University in 1978,[1] 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.[1] 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.[2]
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 All Japan Judo Federation.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "細川伸二-持ち前の強心臓で一気に勝ち抜く". Sankei Sports. Archived from the original on 7 September 2008.
- ^ Olympic Sports
External links
[edit]- Shinji Hosokawa at the International Judo Federation
- Shinji Hosokawa at JudoInside.com
- Shinji Hosokawa at AllJudo.net (in French)
- Shinji Hosokawa at Olympics.com
- Shinji Hosokawa at Olympedia
- Shinji Hosokawa at The-Sports.org
- Shinji Hosokawa at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Japanese male judoka
- Judoka at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic judoka for Japan
- Olympic gold medalists for Japan
- Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
- Sportspeople from Hyōgo Prefecture
- Olympic medalists in judo
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century Japanese sportsmen
- Japanese Olympic medalist stubs
- Japanese judo biography stubs