Japanese judoka (born 1977)
Seigo Saito (齋藤 制剛, Saitō Seigō, born 4 May 1977) is a retired Japanese judoka.
Saito is from Sapporo, Hokkaidō.[1] He belonged to Asahi Kasei after graduation from Kokushikan University in 2000.
Saito was good at Uchimata and Newaza in high-school days and was expected to get medal of Olympic Games or World Championships in the future.[1] But he was not able to use the skill of them by the trouble of knee like Anterior cruciate ligament injury since 2000.[1]
In 2005, he won a gold medal at the Asian Championships and All-Japan Selected Championships with the skill that he learned newly like Kata guruma, Ōuchi gari and Kuchiki taoshi. But he was not chosen as a Japanese representative at the World Championships held in Cairo.
He has coached judo at Asahi Kasei since 2010. Among his students is Tatsuki Masubuchi
Yohei Takai and so on.[2]
His younger brother, Masamichi (順道) is also famous judoka and won a gold medal at the Kodokan Cup in 2001.
Achievements
- 1994 - All-Japan Junior Championships (-86 kg) 2nd
- - Inter-highschool championships (-86 kg) 3rd
- 1995 - Kodokan Cup (-86 kg) 2nd
- - Inter-highschool championships (-86 kg) 1st
- - All-Japan Selected Championships (-86 kg) 3rd
- - All-Japan Junior Championships (-86 kg) 1st
- 1997 - Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) 2nd
- - All-Japan Junior Championships (-86 kg) 1st
- - All-Japan University Championships (-86 kg) 3rd
- 1998 - All-Japan University Championships (-90 kg) 3rd
- 1999 - Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) 3rd
- - All-Japan University Championships (-90 kg) 2nd
- 2000 - All-Japan Businessgroup Championships (-90 kg) 2nd
- 2001 - All-Japan Selected Championships (-90 kg) 2nd
- - Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) 1st
- 2002 - All-Japan Selected Championships (-90 kg) 3rd
- - All-Japan Businessgroup Championships (-90 kg) 1st
- 2003 - Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) 2nd
- - All-Japan Businessgroup Championships (-90 kg) 1st
- 2004 - Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) 1st
- - All-Japan Businessgroup Championships (-90 kg) 1st
- - All-Japan Selected Championships (-90 kg) 2nd
- - Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) 1st
- 2006 - All-Japan Selected Championships (-90 kg) 1st
- - Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) 1st
- - All-Japan Selected Championships (-90 kg) 2nd
- - Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) 1st
- 2008 - All-Japan Businessgroup Championships (-90 kg) 2nd
- 2009 - All-Japan Businessgroup Championships (-90 kg) 2nd
References