SETO Yujiro

Date of Birth: 27 Jan 2000

Age: 21

Gender: Male

Sport Class: B3

Place of birth: ITOSHIMA

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : ITOSHIMA

Residence Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Judo	Men -66 kg	3

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 2	Men -66 kg Elimination Round of 16 #2 ARG GAUTO GALLEGOS EGAUTO GALLEGOS Eduardo Sport Class: B1 0 JPN SETO YSETO Yujiro Sport Class: B3 11s1 IPP	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 2	Men -66 kg Quarterfinals #7 UZB KURANBAEV UKURANBAEV Uchkun Sport Class: B3 10 IPP JPN SETO YSETO Yujiro Sport Class: B3 0	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 2	Men -66 kg Final of Repechage A #26 MGL AAJIM MAAJIM Munkhbat Sport Class: B3 1s2 JPN SETO YSETO Yujiro Sport Class: B3 10s1 IPP	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -66 kg Bronze Medal Contest A #39 JPN SETO YSETO Yujiro Sport Class: B3 11 IPP GEO GAMJASHVILI GGAMJASHVILI Giorgi Sport Class: B2 1	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Occupation:

University of Teacher Education Fukuoka, Munakata, JPN

Languages spoken:

University of Teacher Education Fukuoka [Munakata, JPN]

Yoshiyasu Endo [national], JPN

He took up judo at age four, and began competing in Para judo in 2017, in grade 12 of high school. (nhk.or.jp, 26 Nov 2019)

He was influenced by his older brother. He was invited to his first national Para judo competition by staff from the Japan Blind Judo Federation, who had read an article about him competing at a national high school tournament. (tokyo-sports.co.jp, 07 Aug 2020; nhk.or.jp, 26 Nov 2019; mainichi.jp, 17 Jul 2021)

To win gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (nishinippon.co.jp, 28 Jun 2021)

General Interest

Classification
B3 (IBSA, 19 Aug 2021)

Type of Impairment
Vision impairment (nikkei.com, 09 Feb 2021)

Origin of Impairment
Congenital (tokyo-np.co.jp, 06 Jul 2021)

Impairment Details
He was born with limited vision in both eyes and colour blindness. (nikkei.com, 09 Feb 2021; tokyo-np.co.jp, 06 Jul 2021)

General
FUTURE PLANS
In 2018 he began studying at the University of Teacher Education Fukuoka in Japan with the aim of becoming a special education teacher. (tokyo-sports.co.jp, 07 Aug 2020)

Social Media

Legend

:: Bronze Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
IPP:: Ippon

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