is a Japanese
judoka
is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyc ...
. He won the silver medal in the middleweight (90 kg) division at the
2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
and
2011 World Judo Championships
The 2011 World Judo Championships were held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France from 23 to 28 August.
Schedule
Medal summary
Men's events
Women's events
Medal table
Participating nations
871 competitors from ...
. Because of Nishiyama's ranking and recent form it has come as even more of a surprise that he was not included in the
Japan squad for the 2012 Olympics. The Japanese judo association instead went with the more experienced
Masashi Nishiyama
is a Japanese judoka who won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He is competing for the Nippon Steel Corporation Judo Club.
Biography
Nishiyama was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture and graduated from the Kokushikan Universit ...
in the
90 kg category.
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1990 births
Living people
Japanese male judoka
21st-century Japanese sportsmen
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