Yoshiharu Minami

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Yoshiharu Minami ( Japanese 南 喜 陽 , Minami Yoshiharu ; born September 10, 1951 in Hiroshima Prefecture ) is a former Japanese judoka . In 1973 and 1975 he was world champion in lightweight, the weight class up to 63 kilograms.

Athletic career

The 1.62 m tall Minami was the Japanese champion in 1972, 1974, 1976 and 1977. In 1971 he lost in the final against Hisashi Tsuzawa .

In 1973 he defeated the Frenchman Jean-Jacques Mounier at the Tournoi de Paris in the final . At the 1973 World Championships in Lausanne he defeated the Cuban Héctor Rodríguez in the quarter-finals, the French Jean-Jacques Mounier in the pool final and Schengeli Pizchelauri from the Soviet Union in the semifinals on the way to the final. He won the final against his compatriot Takao Kawaguchi .

In 1974 Minami won the Asian Championships in Seoul. At the 1975 World Championships in Vienna , he defeated the French Yves Delvingt in the quarterfinals and Alexander Leibkind from the Federal Republic of Germany in the semifinals . In the final, Minami met a fellow countryman like 1973, this time defeating Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki . The following year he defeated Dionisio Joseph from Guyana in his first fight at the Montreal Olympics . In the last sixteen he was defeated by Yves Delvingt with a coca rating.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Career overview at judoinside.com
  2. ↑ 1971 All Japan Judo Championships at judoinside.com
  3. ↑ 1973 Tournoi de Paris at judoinside.com
  4. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com. Since there was a pool final and a semi-final at the time, it is not clear in the match balance in which order Minami met Mounier and Pizchelauri. Since Pizchelauri won a bronze medal, he should have been in the semifinals and Mounier in the pool final beforehand.
  5. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  6. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 502f
personal data
SURNAME Minami, Yoshiharu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese judoka
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirshima prefecture