Isao Okano

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Isao Okano 1964

Isao Okano ( Japanese 岡野 功 , Okano, Isao ; born January 20, 1944 in Ryūgasaki ) is a former Japanese judoka . He was the second judo Olympic champion.

Career

The Olympic premiere of judo took place as part of the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo . From October 20th to October 23rd competitions were held in three weight classes and in the open class. On October 21, the second competition was the middleweight division, the weight class up to 80 kilograms. In the preliminary round, the 1.70 m tall Okano defeated the Portuguese Fernando Costa Matos and the Venezuelan Jorge Lugo Lugo . The eight winners of the preliminary round groups then played a tournament with quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals. Nakatani defeated French Lionel Grossain in the quarter-finals . In the semifinals, he defeated the South Korean Kim Eui-tae . In the final against the German Wolfgang Hofmann , Okano needed 1:36 minutes to win the Olympic gold.

At the World Championships in Rio de Janeiro in 1965 , Okano defeated his compatriot Ken'ichi Yamanaka in the final . In 1967 and 1969 Okano won the all-Japanese judo championships in the open class, in 1968 he finished second behind Takeshi Matsuzuka . With a fighting weight of around 80 kilograms, he was one of the lightest athletes who ever won the all-Japanese judo championships in the open class.

In 1970 Okano ended his active sports career and became a coach. At the 1976 Olympic Games he was part of the Japanese coaching staff.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The judo database judoinside.com gives the body height at 1.68 m, the Olympic database Sportsreference at 1.71 m.
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. p. 715
  3. ↑ World Championships 1965 on judoinside
  4. ↑ Isao Okano in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data
SURNAME Okano, Isao
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 岡野 功 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese judoka
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Ryūgasaki