ONO Shohei

Date of Birth: 3 Feb 1992

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Place of birth: YAMAGUCHI

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : TENRI

Residence Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Judo	Men -73 kg	1
	Mixed Team JPN Japan	2

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 2	Men -73 kg Elimination Round of 32 #8 ROU RAICU ARAICU Alexandru 0 JPN ONO SONO Shohei 10 IPP	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 2	Men -73 kg Elimination Round of 16 #22 TUR CILOGLU BCILOGLU Bilal 0 JPN ONO SONO Shohei 10s1 IPP	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 2	Men -73 kg Quarterfinal #29 AZE ORUJOV RORUJOV Rustam 0 JPN ONO SONO Shohei 10s1 IPP	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -73 kg Semifinal of Table A #29 JPN ONO SONO Shohei 1s1 WAZ MGL TSEND-OCHIR TTSEND-OCHIR Tsogtbaatar 0s2	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -73 kg Final #35 JPN ONO SONO Shohei 1s2 WAZ GEO SHAVDATUASHVILI LSHAVDATUASHVILI Lasha 0s1	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	-73 kg
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	1

World Championships

Year	Location	-73 kg	Team X
2019	Tokyo, JPN	1	1
2015	Astana, KAZ	1	1
2014	Chelyabinsk, RUS	9	1
2013	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	1	3

Asian Games

Year	Location	-73 kg
2018	Indonesia	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
2020	-73 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019	-73 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018	-73 kg	2x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017	-73 kg	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-

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

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2020	-73 kg	Grand Slam	Dusseldorf, GER
1	2019	-73 kg	Grand Slam	Dusseldorf, GER
1	2018	-73 kg	Grand Slam	Osaka, JPN
1	2018	-73 kg	Grand Slam	Dusseldorf, GER
9	2017	-73 kg	Grand Slam	Tokyo, JPN

Weightlifting. (sportsbull.jp, 26 Jun 2020)

Occupation:

Athlete, Office Worker

Tenri University, Japan

Languages spoken:

Asahi Kasei [Japan]

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

He took up the sport while he was in the first grade of primary school at a youth sports club in Yamaguchi, Japan. (sponichi.co.jp, 28 Aug 2013)

One of his relatives coached judo at a local youth sports club. He was also encouraged to try the sport by his brother. (nhk.or.jp, 01 Nov 2017; sponichi.co.jp, 28 Aug 2013)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (yahoo.co.jp, 05 Jan 2020)

Coach Haruya Mochida. (asahi.com, 10 Oct 2020)

In 2019 he was given the Tokyo Sports Journalists Club Award of the Year in Japan. (jiji.com, 16 Mar 2020)

In January 2019 he was presented the Big Sports Special Award at the 54th Asahi TV Big Sports Awards in Japan. (tv-asahi.co.jp, 15 Jan 2019)

In 2016 he was named Male Judoka of the Year by the International Judo Federation [IJF]. (japantimes.co.jp, 24 Dec 2016)

In 2016 he received the Tokyo-to Citizen Sports Grand Award in Japan. (daily.co.jp, 12 Oct 2016)

In 2016 he was presented with the Nara Prefecture Citizen Honorary Award in Japan. (pref.nara.jp, 20 Sep 2016)

In 2016 he was given the Yamaguchi Prefecture Sports Honorary Award in Japan. (sponichi.co.jp, 24 Aug 2016)

General Interest

General
TRADITIONAL STYLE
He took a one-year break from the sport after winning gold in the 73kg category at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. He focused on studying the osoto-gari judo technique as part of his thesis at Tenri University Graduate School in Japan. "I found that my osoto-gari technique is an old judo style, but I'm proud that I have followed traditional Japanese judo style. It is meaningful for me, as I have grown up in an environment that keeps the traditional judo style while applying the modern rules since I was a middle school student. I confirmed again that my beliefs about the sport were not wrong." (chunichi.co.jp, 27 Aug 2019; olympicchannel.com, 13 May 2019; sankei.com, 13 Nov 2018)

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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