OGAWA Kazusa

Date of Birth: 16 Feb 1997

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Sport Class: B2

Place of birth: ICHIHARA

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : ICHIHARA

Residence Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Judo	Women -70 kg	3

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 2	Women -70 kg Elimination Round of 16 #4 GRE PASCHALIDOU TPASCHALIDOU Theodora Sport Class: B1 0 JPN OGAWA KOGAWA Kazusa Sport Class: B2 10s1 IPP	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 2	Women -70 kg Quarterfinals #12 UZB ALIBOEVA VALIBOEVA Vasila Sport Class: B3 0 DNS JPN OGAWA KOGAWA Kazusa Sport Class: B2 10 IPP	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 2	Women -70 kg Semifinals B #28 GEO KALDANI IKALDANI Ina Sport Class: B2 10s1 IPP JPN OGAWA KOGAWA Kazusa Sport Class: B2 0	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Women -70 kg Bronze Medal Contest A #34 RPC ZABRODSKAIA OZABRODSKAIA Olga Sport Class: B2 0s1 JPN OGAWA KOGAWA Kazusa Sport Class: B2 1s2 WAZ	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
World Championships
7	Women -70 kg	2018	Odivelas, POR

Shopping, watching films, spending time with friends in cafes. (sankei.com, 13 Jan 2020)

Occupation:

Athlete, Office Worker

Languages spoken:

Masaya Sato [national], JPN

2017 for Japan, World Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Nippon Challenged Athlete Radio, 18 Oct 2019)

She began judo in grade seven of middle school. (Nippon Challenged Athlete Radio, 18 Oct 2019)

She originally trained in long jump for three years in primary school, but was forced to give up the sport due to her vision impairment. Her friend's father then encouraged her to try able-bodied judo. However, she stopped training in the sport after transferring to a school for people with visual impairments in grade 11 of high school. She was introduced to Para judo by her physical education teacher the following year. "I was surprised that people would be still able to do judo despite vision impairment, and I strongly wanted to compete, again." (Nippon Challenged Athlete Radio, 18 Oct 2019; sankei.com, 13 Jan 2020)

To win gold medals at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo and the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. She also aspires to work as a Para judo instructor at primary or middle school. (sankei.com, 13 Jan 2020; meisupo.net, 04 Dec 2020)

General Interest

Classification
B2 (IBSA, 03 Aug 2021)

Type of Impairment
Vision impairment (ibsasport.org, 04 Jul 2019)

Origin of Impairment
Congenital (Nippon Challenged Athlete Radio, 18 Oct 2019)

Impairment Details
Her visual impairment is the result of an optic nerve glioma, a slow-growing brain tumour, which she was diagnosed with at birth. (Nippon Challenged Athlete Radio, 18 Oct 2019)

General
CHANGE OF CATEGORY
In 2018 she moved up from the 63kg class to 70kg. "In 2018 I was defeated in the 63kg category at the national selection trials. But I desperately wanted to compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games, so I was looking for how to make it. Fortunately, there was a chance in the 70kg at the final selection trials, so I decided to change my category. I normally ate three meals a day, but had to eat three more meals for a weight-gaining process." (Nippon Challenged Athlete Radio, 18 Oct 2019)

Legend

:: Bronze Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
DNS:: Did not start
IPP:: Ippon
WAZ:: Waza-Ari

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