Ryunosuke Haga
Ryunosuke Haga (羽賀 龍之介, Haga Ryunosuke, born 28 April 1991) is a male Japanese retired[1] judoka and 2015 world champion in the under 100 kg division. His favoured technique is Uchi Mata.[2] Born in Miyazaki, Haga started judo at the age of 5.[2] He won the gold medal in the –100 kg weight class at the 2010 World Juniors Championships in Agadir.[2] In 2011, Haga won the Shenzhen Universiade.[2] In 2015, he won the gold medal in the Half-heavyweight (100 kg) division at the 2015 World Championships.[3] Haga won the 2015 Tokyo Grand Slam and the 2015 Düsseldorf Grand Prix.[4][5] Bronze medalist in the 2016 Rio Olympics.[6] Haga's father, Yoshio, was also a judoka. Like his father who was a winner of the Kodokan Cup, he won the competition in 2010 and 2011.[7] Furthermore, he maintains a decade-long friendship with Ōzeki Kirishima Tetsuo, a professional sumo wrestler.[8] References
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