Keiji Suzuki

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Keiji Suzuki

Keiji (right) at final of All-Japan Judo Championships

Personal information

State:

Active

Nationality:

Japan

Date of birth:

June 3, 1980

Place of birth:

Ishige, Ibaraki

Height:

1.84 m (6 ft ¹⁄₂ in)

Weight:

105 kg (231 lb; 16.5 st)

Kumite:

Left

Dan:

6th

Position:

Heisei Kanzai

Coach(es):

Koichi Iwabuchi
Hitoshi Saito

Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold	2004 Athens	+100 kg
World Championships
Gold	2003 Osaka	Open
Gold	2005 Cairo	-100 kg
Bronze	2010 Tokyo	Open
Bronze	2011 Tyumen	Open
Asian Games
Gold	2002 Busan	-100 kg
Asian Championships
Silver	2004 Almaty	+100 kg
Silver	2009 Taipei	+100 kg
Universiade
Gold	2001 Beijing	-100 kg

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 is known as having some of the best ashi waza of all heavyweights.

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

Suzuki dislocated his shoulder in the semi-finals of the 2012 All Japan Judo Championships and subsequently announced his retirement as he was not selected to represent Japan at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Suzuki was appointed Men's Heavyweight Coach for the Japanese team by the new head coach, his friend and former rival Kosei Inoue.

References

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

External links

Keiji Suzuki – JudoInside.com
Competition videos of Keiji Suzuki at Judovision

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Keiji Suzuki.

v t e Olympic Champions in Judo Heavyweight Men

1964: +80 kg, 1972+1976: +93 kg, 1980-1992: +95 kg, 1996-2008: +100 kg

1964: Isao Inokuma 1972: Wim Ruska 1976: Serhiy Novikov 1980: Angelo Parisi 1984+1988: Hitoshi Saito 1992: David Khakhaleishvili 1996+2000: David Douillet 2004: Keiji Suzuki 2008: Satoshi Ishii 2012: Teddy Riner

v t e All-Japan Judo Champions

Men	1930 Kanbe Furusawa 1931 Tatsukuma Ushijima 1932 Tatsukuma Ushijima 1933 Not held 1934 Suekichi Tanaka 1935 Eisaku Iiyama 1936 Isamu Shinbara / Shinkichi Setoguchi 1937 Masahiko Kimura 1938 Masahiko Kimura 1939 Masahiko Kimura 1940 Not held 1941 Iwao Hirose 1942–47 Not held 1948 Yasuichi Matsumoto 1949 Takahiko Ishikawa / Masahiko Kimura 1950 Takahiko Ishikawa 1951 Toshiro Daigo 1952 Yoshihiko Yoshimatsu 1953 Yoshihiko Yoshimatsu 1954 Toshiro Daigo 1955 Yoshihiko Yoshimatsu 1956 Not held 1957 Shokichi Natsui 1958 Koji Sone 1959 Isao Inokuma 1960 Akio Kaminaga 1961 Akio Kaminaga 1962 Yoshinori Takeuchi 1963 Isao Inokuma 1964 Akio Kaminaga 1965 Seiji Sakaguchi 1966 Mitsuo Matsunaga 1967 Isao Okano 1968 Takeshi Matsuzaka 1969 Isao Okano 1970 Masatoshi Shinomaki 1971 Kaneo Iwatsuri 1972 Shinobu Sekine 1973 Haruki Uemura 1974 Nobuyuki Sato 1975 Haruki Uemura 1976 Sumio Endo 1977 Yasuhiro Yamashita 1978 Yasuhiro Yamashita 1979 Yasuhiro Yamashita 1980 Yasuhiro Yamashita 1981 Yasuhiro Yamashita 1982 Yasuhiro Yamashita 1983 Yasuhiro Yamashita 1984 Yasuhiro Yamashita 1985 Yasuhiro Yamashita 1986 Yoshimi Masaki 1987 Yoshimi Masaki 1988 Hitoshi Saito 1989 Naoya Ogawa 1990 Naoya Ogawa 1991 Naoya Ogawa 1992 Naoya Ogawa 1993 Naoya Ogawa 1994 Jun Konno 1995 Naoya Ogawa 1996 Naoya Ogawa 1997 Jun Konno 1998 Shinichi Shinohara 1999 Shinichi Shinohara 2000 Shinichi Shinohara 2001 Kosei Inoue 2002 Kosei Inoue 2003 Kosei Inoue 2004 Keiji Suzuki 2005 Keiji Suzuki 2006 Satoshi Ishii 2007 Keiji Suzuki 2008 Satoshi Ishii 2009 Takamasa Anai 2010 Kazuhiko Takahashi 2011 Keiji Suzuki 2012 Hirotaka Kato

Women	1986 Kaori Hachinohe 1987 Yoko Tanabe 1988 Yoko Tanabe 1989 Yoko Tanabe 1990 Yoko Tanabe 1991 Yoko Tanabe 1992 Yoko Tanabe 1993 Noriko Anno 1994 Noriko Anno 1995 Noriko Anno 1996 Noriko Anno 1997 Miho Ninomiya 1998 Miho Ninomiya 1999 Noriko Anno 2000 Mayumi Yamashita 2001 Midori Shintani 2002 Maki Tsukada 2003 Maki Tsukada 2004 Maki Tsukada 2005 Maki Tsukada 2006 Maki Tsukada 2007 Maki Tsukada 2008 Maki Tsukada 2009 Maki Tsukada 2010 Maki Tsukada 2011 Mika Sugimoto 2012 Kanae Yamabe

Persondata
Name	Suzuki, Keiji
Alternative names
Short description	Japanese judoka
Date of birth	1980-06-03
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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