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Place of Birth: Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
About Yoshio Nakamura
- Yoshio Nakamura (?? ??, Nakamura Yoshio, born 22 October 1970) is a retired Japanese judoka, and former world champion.
- His younger brothers, Yukimasa and Kenzo are also former world champions. Nakamura is from Fukuoka, Fukuoka.
- He began Judo at the age of 3rd grader.
- After graduation from Tokai University, He belonged to Asahi Kasei. He won the gold medal in the -86 kg weight class at the 1993 World Judo Championships. In 1995, after All-Japan Championships, he moved up in weight class, from -86 kg to -95 kg. He finished in seventh place in the -95 kg weight class at the Olympic Games in 1996 and won the bronze medal in the -95 kg weight class at the World Championships in 1997. Nakamura was good at Uchimata, Ouchi gari, Harai goshi and especially Newaza.
- He is well known that he destroyed Hirotaka Okada's elbow by Juji-gatame at the All-Japan selected championships in 1994.
- He was also known as a rival of Hidehiko Yoshida. In July 2004, after All-Japan Businessgroup Championships, Nakamura retired.As of 2010, he has coached at Asahi Kasei since 2001.
- Among his pupil are world champion Hiroshi Izumi, Masato Uchishiba and so on.
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