Tadahiro Nomura

Tadahiro Nomura (Japanese野村 忠 宏Tadahiro Nomura, born December 10, 1974 in Koryo Nara, Japan) is a judoka in the super lightweight.

Nomura was in Atlanta in 1996 for the first time Olympic champion in the 60 kg class when he defeated the Italian Girolamo Govinazzo in Gold battle. Now, do not you could see the top athletes from Japan four years in international judo until he qualified for his second Olympic Games. In these Olympic judo competitions that took place in Sydney in 2000, he celebrated against Bu - Kyung Jung from South Korea his second Olympic victory by victory in the final. So he enrolled in the Guinness World Record Book as the best super light one, there has ever been. Even after these games, the Japanese pulled back for three years. 2003 in Osaka ( JPN) at the World Judo Championships in his home country was his big goal, the gold medal. In the quarterfinals, but he was in a duel against the reigning world champion of 2001 in Munich (GER ) Anis Lounifi from Tunisia. By an O- uchi -gari, which would need to be assessed correctly with Ippon, Nomura would have reached the semi-finals and would have been his goal one step closer. However, the judges verdict was different and shortly before the end of the effective period of struggle - Nomura still the clear leader - was the Tunisians schedule a handhold and reached the semifinals, he lost to Choi Min - ho of South Korea. At the end of gold went to the Koreans and the bronze at Tadahiro Nomura. Thus, the Japanese qualified for the Games in Athens in 2004 and was in excellent shape and eventually won the Olympic final against the European champion in 2003 in Dusseldorf (GER ) Nestor Chergiani from Georgia. After silver and bronze in 2007 and 2008 when Otto Super World Cup in Germany Hamburg Nomura lost the final of the Japanese Olympic elimination matches due to knee problems Hiroaki Hiraoka, who drove instead Nomura for the Olympic Games in Beijing. This was eliminated in round 1 of the competition.

Over a career end, Nomura is not yet clear.

Tadahiro Nomura is today with three Olympic gold medals, the most successful judoka in history. Nomura's special techniques accompanied him to his magnificent and incredible successes in Judo. Against his Seoi - nage- variations (shoulder throw) and Uchi - mata - and O -soto -gari techniques were his opponents a chance.