Nomura Tadahiro 🇯🇵 – Triple Gold Medallist in Judo! | Athlete Highlights

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Nomura Tadahiro 野村 忠宏 is just one of the most famous judo competitors in Japan.
He is the only judoka on the planet who has actually won three Olympic Gold Medals in a row, all in the additional lightweight (-60 kg) department. Nomura started discovering judo at his grandfather’s dojo at age six. He won the All-Japan Selected judo championships for his weight class in April 1996 to acquire a spot on the Japanese Olympic group for the 1996 Summer Olympics kept in Atlanta (USA). Though fairly unknown at the world degree at the moment, he won his initial Olympic Gold Medal defeating Girolamo Giovinazzo by seoi nage. After an injury, Nomura made his return at the All-Japan Selected judo champions in 2000, winning the competition for the third time to gain a second trip to the Olympics. He ended up being the very first -60 kg department competitor to win successive Olympic Gold Medals by defeating Jung Bu-Kyung of South Korea by sumi otoshi only 14 seconds right into the suit of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

He won the Japanese nationals for the 2nd consecutive year (fifth complete win) which allowed him to look for an unmatched third consecutive Olympic Gold Medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This made Nomura the only Olympic judo expert to have actually won 3 consecutive Gold Medals, and the very first Olympic competitor from Asia to win 3 consecutive gold medals in any type of competitors.

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