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Hitoshi Saito (斉藤 仁, Saitō Hitoshi, January 2, 1961 – January 20, 2015) was a Japanese judoka who won two consecutive gold medals at the Olympic games. Biography
Hitoshi Saito, a two-time Olympic judo champion and head of the All Japan Judo Federation's committee for enhancement, died of intrahepatic bile duct cancer Tuesday in Osaka, an...
2 days ago · Jul 4, 2024. Japanese judo heavyweight Tatsuru Saito will be driven by the memory of his famous father when he goes for gold at the Paris Olympics. Hitoshi Saito was a judo great who triumphed at ...
On 1 October 1988 in Seoul, Hitoshi Saitō achieved something nobody had managed before: he successfully defended the title won four years earlier in Los Angeles, the first Japanese judoka to achieve this double at the Games, and the first in the heavyweight category.
Jan 20, 2015 · Two-time judo Olympic gold medallist and former Japan national coach Hitoshi Saito has died, aged 54, after a battle with cancer. Saito won consecutive Olympic golds for the heavyweight over-95...
Japanese judoka Hitoshi Saito won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games as a heavyweight. His 1984 gold was the first Japanese one after 20 years. He was 1983 World Champion in the open class, and was runner-up in the heavyweight division.
2 days ago · Hitoshi Saito was a judo great who triumphed at consecutive Olympics in 1984 and 1988 at over 95 kilograms. He died of cancer in 2015 aged 54 but his “spirit lives on” in his son, according to Yasuhiro Yamashita, a former Olympic champion who until last year headed Japan’s judo federation.
