Shōzō Fujii

Shōzō Fujii ( Japanese 藤 猪 省 太 , Fujii Shōzō ; born May 11, 1950 in Higashikagawa ) is a former Japanese judoka . He was three times world middleweight champion and once light middleweight.

Shōzō Fujii won the Tournoi de Paris in 1971 . At the 1971 World Championships in Ludwigshafen , nine Japanese reached the finals in six weight classes. In the middleweight division, Fujii won against Yoshinari Shigematsu . Shinobu Sekine started and won the 1972 Olympic Games . The following year, at the World Championships in Lausanne , ten Japanese reached one of the six fights for gold. Fujii won his second world title by defeating Isamu Sonoda . At the 1974 Asian Championships, Fujii first won the middleweight finals. He then went to the open class and won here against his compatriot Sumio Endo , who had won the heavyweight title. In 1975 the World Championships took place in Vienna, eight Japanese reached a final. In the middleweight division, Fujii won against his compatriot Yoshimi Hara . At the Olympic Games in 1976 Isamu Sonoda won, who had prevailed against Fujii in the Japanese Olympic qualification.

After reorganizing the weight classes, Fujii started in 1978 in the light middleweight division. In 1979 he won the pre-Olympic tournament in Moscow. At the World Championships in Paris in 1979 , he defeated French Bernard Tchoullouyan in the final . In 1980, the year of the Japanese Olympic boycott , the career of the four-time world champion, who never started at the Olympic Games, ended.

Web links

• Tournament results at judoinside.com

Footnotes

1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 623, note 259