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Takanori Nagase

Takanori Nagase

Takanori Nagase became Olympic Champion twice in 2021 and 2024 and won Olympic bronze in Rio 2016 with Japan and silver in the team event in 2021 and 2024 with Japan. He became world champion in 2015 and claimed a bronze medal at the Worlds in Tashkent in 2022 and Doha in 2023. In 2013. 2014 and 2016 he won the Grand Slam in Tokyo. He won the IJF Masters in Rabat U81kg in 2015. In total Nagase won seven Grand Slams and took gold at the Grand Prix in Montreal and Zagreb. He triumphed at the Grand Slam in Antalya in 2024.


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