Tadanori Koshino

Tadanori Koshino

Personal information
Born	1966
Medal record Men's Judo Representing Japan Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona -60 kg World Championships 1991 Barcelona -60 kg 1989 Belgrade -60 kg Asian Games 1990 Beijing -60 kg Asian Championships 1988 Damascus -60 kg

Tadanori Koshino (越野 忠則, Koshino Tadanori, born April 3, 1966 in Shiranuka, Hokkaidō, Japan) is a retired judoka who competed in the -60 kg division.

Biography

Koshino began learning judo with a local sports team while he was in elementary school, and became the Hokkaidō Prefecture champion for his weight class in junior-high school. He placed third in the inter-highschool tournament during his senior year, and entered Tōkai University in 1985. He won the Shoriki Cup twice while attending the university, and joined the Toyo Suisan corporation after graduating. He won the Kodokan Cup for 4 consecutive years from 1989–1992 and All-Japan Weight Class Judo Championships for 3 consecutive years from 1989–1991, and placed second in the World Judo Championships in 1989 before winning the world championships in 1991. He retired from competitive judo after finishing with a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He became an instructor for the International Budo University in April, 1993.

See also

• List of judoka
• List of Olympic medalists in judo