Keiji Suzuki

Keiji Suzuki
Keiji (right) at final of All-Japan Judo Championships
Personal information
State: Active
Nationality:  Japan
Date of birth: June 3, 1980 (1980-06-03) (age 31)
Place of birth: Ishige, Ibaraki
Height: 1.84 m (6 ft 12 in)
Weight: 105 kg (230 lb; 16.5 st)
Kumite: Left
Dan: 5th
Position: Heisei Kanzai
Ccoach(es): Koichi Iwabuchi
Hitoshi Saito

Keiji Suzuki (鈴木桂治 Suzuki Keiji?, born on June 3, 1980 in Jōsō, Ibaraki, Japan) is a Japanese judoka.

He won the Olympic gold medal in the heavyweight (+100 kg) division in the 2004. He is also a two-time world champion.

He is noted for being a remarkably small judoka in the heavyweight division; he also regularly competes in the light-heavyweight (-100 kg) class.

Suzuki was eliminated in the first round of the 2010 world Judo championship in Yoyogi, Japan via ippon by Janusz Wojnarowicz of Poland.[1]

References

  1. ^ Kyodo News, "Ex-champ Suzuki falls at first hurdle", Japan Times, 10 September 2010, p. 11.

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