About Shinobu Sekine
Lived 1943 – 2018 (aged 75). Shinobu Sekine was a Japanese judoka.
was a Japanese middleweight judoka. He won a gold medal at his only Olympics in 1972.
Biography Sekine was born in Ōarai, Ibaraki, and entered the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department after graduating from Chuo University. He sought a spot on the Olympic judo team after seeing Isao Okano, a rival judoka also from Ibaraki Prefecture, win gold at the 1964 Summer Olympics. However, judo was not included in the program for the 1968 Summer Olympics, and Sekine entered the Olympics for the first time in 1972 as a 28-year-old veteran after winning the All-Japan Judo Championships that year.
Sekine died on 18 December 2018 at the age of 75.
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Who was Shinobu Sekine?
Japanese judoka (1943-2018)
When was Shinobu Sekine born?
Shinobu Sekine was born on 20 September 1943 in Ōarai-machi.
When did Shinobu Sekine die?
Shinobu Sekine died on 18 December 2018 in Tokyo.
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Shinobu Sekine was a judoka.
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Shinobu Sekine was Japanese.
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