Kentaro Iida
Kentaro Iida ( Japanese 飯 田健 太郎 , Iida Kentaro ; * May 4, 1998 ) is a Japanese judoka . He was the 2018 Asian game winner in the light heavyweight division, the weight class up to 100 kilograms.
Iida won the Grand Slam tournament in Paris in 2017 , defeating Portuguese Jorge Fonseca in the semifinals and French Cyrille Maret in the final . Six months later he reached the finals of the Universiade in Taipei , but lost there to Zelym Kotsoiev from Azerbaijan. In the summer of 2018 Iida reached the final of the Asian Games in Jakarta by defeating the Mongols Otgonbaatar Lkhagvasuren , in the final he defeated the South Korean Cho Gu-ham .
In 2019 Iida defeated Zelym Kotsoiev in the semifinals of the Grand Slam tournament in Düsseldorf , and in the final he won against Cho Gu-ham. Six months later he met Russian Kirill Denisov in the semifinals of the Grand Slam tournament in Brasília . After defeating this, he defeated the Brazilian Rafael Buzacarini in the final .
Web links
- Tournament results at judoinside.com
Footnotes
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Iida, Kentaro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese judoka |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1998 |