Yoshimi Masaki

Yoshimi Masaki
Medal record

Representing Japan
Men's judo
World Championships
	1985 Seoul	Open
Asian Games
	1986 Seoul	Open
Asian Championships
	1984 Kuwait City	Open
Universiade
	1985 Kobe	Open^[1]

Yoshimi Masaki (正木嘉美, Masaki Yoshimi, born on August 20, 1962 in Tadaoka, Osaka, Japan) is a retired Japanese judoka who is a professor at Tenri University.

Biography

Masaki began judo during elementary school, and graduated from Tenri Highschool and Tenri University, where he was awarded as an outstanding competitor at the All-Japan Collegiate Judo Championships four times. Yasuhiro Yamashita, Seigo Saito, Yasuyuki Muneta, and Yohei Takai are the only other judoka in history who received the award four times. Masaki continued to work and train at the university after graduating, but was unable to gain a spot on the Japanese national judo team as the third-string competitor behind Yasuhiro Yamashita and Hitoshi Saito. However, when Saito entered in both the +95 kg and Open weight categories of the 1985 World Judo Championships, he was severely injured in the final of the +95 kg competition, forcing him to give up his spot in the Open weight category. Masaki filled in as a last-minute replacement, and defeated Mohamed Rashwan in the final to become world champion in the Open weight category.^[2] He continued his success with consecutive wins at the All-Japan Judo Championships from 1986–1987, and was scheduled to enter the 1987 World Judo Championships but withdrew due to an injury (his replacement, 19-year-old Naoya Ogawa, went on to win the tournament to become the youngest world champion at the time). Though seen as the favorite to represent Japan in the Open weight category at the 1988 Summer Olympics, Masaki was defeated by Naoya Ogawa and Hitoshi Saito in qualification tournaments and did not make an appearance at the Olympics.

Masaki has continued to work for Tenri University after retiring, both as a judo instructor and a professor in sports science. He has also worked as an instructor for the All-Japan Judo Federation.

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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 2013 Takamasa Anai 2014 Takeshi Ojitani 2015 Hisayoshi Harasawa 2016 Takeshi Ojitani

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 2013 Akari Ogara 2014 Kanae Yamabe 2015 Megumi Tachimoto 2016 Kanae Yamabe

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Yoshimi Masaki

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