Sumio Endo

Sumio Endo ( Japanese 遠藤 純 男 , Endō Sumio ; born October 3, 1950 in Kōriyama ) is a former Japanese judoka . He won an Olympic bronze medal and two world titles.

The 1.70 m tall Sumio Endo won the Tournoi de Paris in 1974 . At the Asian Championships in the same year he won the heavyweight division and took second place in the open class behind Shozo Fujii . In October 1975 he defeated the Soviet judoka Sergei Novikow in the heavyweight final of the Judo World Championships in Vienna . At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , Nowikow and Endo met in the first round of the heavyweight division, Nowikow won by referee decision (yusei-gachi). In the hope round Endo defeated the North Korean Pak Jong-gil , the Yugoslav Radomir Kovačević and the Briton Keith Remfry and received a bronze medal. After the 1977 World Championships did not take place because of the Taiwan conflict , Sumio Endo did not return to international championships until the 1979 World Championships in Paris . In the open class, he defeated the French Jean-Luc Rougé in the semifinals and Vitaly Kuznetsov from the Soviet Union in the finals .

Web links

• Sumio Endō in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Tournament results at judoinside.com

Footnotes

1. ↑ 1974 Asian Championships at judoinside.com
2. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
3. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 505