Seigo Saito

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 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 Yohei Takai and so on.^[2]

His younger brother, (順道) is also famous judoka and won a gold medal at the in 2001.

Achievements[]

- Inter-highschool championships (-86 kg) 3rd

- Inter-highschool championships (-86 kg) 1st

- All-Japan Selected Championships (-86 kg) 3rd

- All-Japan Junior Championships (-86 kg) 1st

- All-Japan Junior Championships (-86 kg) 1st

- All-Japan University Championships (-86 kg) 3rd

- All-Japan University Championships (-90 kg) 2nd

- Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) 1st

- All-Japan Businessgroup Championships (-90 kg) 1st

- All-Japan Businessgroup Championships (-90 kg) 1st

- All-Japan Businessgroup Championships (-90 kg) 1st

- All-Japan Selected Championships (-90 kg) 2nd

- Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) 1st

- Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) 1st

- All-Japan Selected Championships (-90 kg) 2nd

- Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) 1st

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "近代柔道 2010年9月号入門！一流の技術 -第75回齋藤制剛5段の「内股」-". Baseball Magazine Sha Co., Ltd. 22 September 2010.
^ "旭化成柔道部 -選手・スタッフ紹介-". Asahi Kasei. Archived from the original on 17 February 2010.

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