Akinobu Ōsako

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Akinobu Ōsako ( Japanese 大 迫 明 伸 , Ōsako Akinobu ; born November 27, 1960 in Kobayashi , Miyazaki Prefecture ) is a Japanese judoka who worked as an international referee after his active career.

The 1.70 m tall Akinobu Ōsako finished second at the Tournoi de Paris in 1986 in the middleweight division behind Frenchman Fabien Canu . At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 he defeated the Angolan José António Inácio in his first fight by Ippon after 1:42 min. His second fight against the Brazilian Walter Carmona went over the full distance, Ōsako reached the next round by referee decision (yusei-gachi). In the quarter-finals he met the Chinese Liu Junlin , after 2:26 minutes the Japanese was in the semi-finals. There he was defeated by the Austrian Peter Seisenbacher through a Yuko rating. Ōsako won the battle for a bronze medal against Fabien Canu through yusei-gachi.

In the year after the Olympic Games, Ōsako won his first two fights at the 1989 World Championships in Belgrade against the Swiss Daniel Kistler and the Austrian Rudolf Buchsteiner . In the quarter-finals he was defeated by Roman Karger from Czechoslovakia, in the round of hope he was eliminated by Axel Lobenstein from the GDR and finished in ninth place.

Akinobu Ōsako was vice chairman of the referees committee in the Japanese Judo Federation in the 2010s. He was referee at the World Championships from 2010 to 2015 and chief referee at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Tournoi de Paris 1986 at judoinside.com
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 105f
  3. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  4. ↑ Biographical note at judoinside.com (accessed on January 4, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Ōsako, Akinobu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese judoka
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Kobayashi , Miyazaki Prefecture