MASAKI Kento

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
1	Men +100 kg	2012	London, GBR
3	Men +100 kg	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
World Championships
3	Men +100 kg	2014	Colorado Springs, CO, USA
7	Men +100 kg	2018	Odivelas, POR
Asian Para Games
5	Men +100 kg	2018	Jakarta, INA

Going to the sauna, basketball, sumo wrestling. (Athlete, 01 Apr 2016)

Athlete, Office Worker

Japanese

Mitsubishi Auto Leasing Corporation [Japan]

Yoshiyasu Endo [national], JPN

2011 for Japan, World Championships in Antalya, Turkey (Athlete, 01 Apr 2016)

His training was disrupted ahead of the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro due to backache and injuries to his knee. (Nippon Challenged Athlete Radio, 26 Aug 2016)

He took up able-bodied judo in grade seven of middle school, and began competing in Para judo in 2011. (Athlete, 29 Oct 2015; Nippon Challenged Athlete Radio, 26 Aug 2016)

He was encouraged to join a judo team by a childhood friend. He decided to switch to Para judo after meeting Japanese Para judoka Osamu Takagaki. He left Tenri University in order to take up Para judo at a school for people with visual impairments. "I wanted to become a police officer after completing studies at university, but I discovered that I had to pass a test for vision. Therefore I gave it up. When I was worrying about my future, I heard about the Paralympic Games for the first time from Osamu." (Athlete, 01 Apr 2016; Nippon Challenged Athlete Radio, 26 Aug 2016)

To win gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (jiji.com, 25 Aug 2020)

Japanese boxer Mamoru Takamura. (IJF, 20 Jan 2016)

Japanese judoka Shinichi Shinohara, and his high school teacher. (jiji.com, 25 Aug 2020; Nippon Challenged Athlete Radio, 26 Aug 2016; IJF, 20 Jan 2016)

"Self restraint." (Athlete, 01 Apr 2016)