NAGASE Takanori

Date of Birth: 14 Oct 1993

Age: 27

Gender: Male

Place of birth: NAGASAKI

Birth Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Judo	Men -81 kg	1
	Mixed Team JPN Japan	2

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -81 kg Elimination Round of 32 #8 TUR ALBAYRAK VALBAYRAK Vedat 0s3 JPN NAGASE TNAGASE Takanori 10s2 IPP	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -81 kg Elimination Round of 16 #22 JPN NAGASE TNAGASE Takanori 10s2 IPP ITA PARLATI CPARLATI Christian 0s2	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -81 kg Quarterfinal #29 JPN NAGASE TNAGASE Takanori 1s2 WAZ GER RESSEL DRESSEL Dominic 0	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -81 kg Semifinal of Table A #39 BEL CASSE MCASSE Matthias 0s2 JPN NAGASE TNAGASE Takanori 1s1 WAZ	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -81 kg Final #45 JPN NAGASE TNAGASE Takanori 1s1 WAZ MGL MOLLAEI SMOLLAEI Saeid 0	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Mixed Team Quarterfinal #3 JPN Japan 4 GER Germany 2	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Mixed Team Semifinal of Table A #6 JPN Japan 4 ROC ROC 0	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Mixed Team Final #9 JPN Japan 1 FRA France 4	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	-81 kg
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	3

World Championships

Year	Location	-81 kg	Team X
2017	Budapest, HUN	9	1
2015	Astana, KAZ	1	1
2014	Chelyabinsk, RUS	5	1

Grand Slam - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	9th	16th	17th	30th-33rd
2021	-81 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-
2020	-81 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x
2019	-81 kg	2x	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018	-81 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Prix - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2019	-81 kg	2x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Slam, Grand Prix & World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2019	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Osaka, JPN
1	2019	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Brasilia, BRA
1	2019	-81 kg	Grand Prix	Zagreb, CRO
1	2019	-81 kg	Grand Prix	Montreal, FRA
2	2019	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Yekaterinburg, RUS
3	2021	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Tashkent, UZB
3	2018	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Osaka, JPN
32	2020	-81 kg	Grand Slam	Dusseldorf, GER

"Devote myself to judo day by day." (tokyo-sports.co.jp, 29 Aug 2015)

Occupation:

Athlete, Office Worker

University of Tsukuba

Languages spoken:

Asahi Kasei [Japan]

Yuya Yoshida [club], JPN; Kosei Inoue [national], JPN

Sporting relatives:

His uncle Katsuyi Hirao represented Japan in judo, and won a silver medal in the -90kg category at the 1969 World Championships in Mexico City, Mexico. His mother Sayuri played tennis at national level in Japan. (nikkansports.com, 28 Aug 2015; sanspo.com, 02 Dec 2015; SportsDeskOnline, 11 Nov 2020)

He began the sport at age six. (sanspo.com, 02 Dec 2015)

His uncle was a judoka and invited him to judo classes. (nikkansports.com, 28 Aug 2015)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (tv-tokyo.co.jp, 27 Feb 2018)

Japanese judoka [and his uncle] Katsuyi Hirao. (nikkansports.com, 28 Aug 2015)

In 2016 he was given the Nagasaki Prefecture Citizen Citation Special Glory Award in Japan. (mainichi.jp, 02 Sep 2016)

In 2015 he received the Nagasaki Prefecture Sports Special Award in Japan. (pref.nagasaki.jp, Feb 2016)

General Interest

Belt grade
Black belt - IV DAN (judo.or.jp, 15 May 2020)

Preferred techniques
Uchi-mata (IJF, 17 Jul 2016)

General
MEDAL HONOUR
His uncle Katsuyi Hirao was a former judoka and introduced Nagase to the sport at age six. Hirao passed away in 2003, and when Nagase won a gold medal in the -81kg category at the 2015 World Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, he placed a photo of his uncle on a seat in the stadium in his honour. (nikkansports.com, 28 Aug 2015)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Silver Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
IPP:: Ippon
WAZ:: Waza-Ari

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