*anese judoka

Yasuhiko Moriwaki (森脇 保彦, Moriwaki Yasuhiko, born 7 May 1952) is a retired *anese judoka.

Moriwaki is from Kake, Hiroshima and began judo at the junior high school days.

When he was a member of judo club at Sotoku high-school (崇徳高校, Sōtoku Kōkō), alongside Takao Kawaguchi and Yoshiharu Minami.

In 1974, When Moriwaki was a student of Kokushikan University, he won a gold medal at the World University Championships held in Brussels. He took office as the coach of Kokushikan University after graduation from there.

In 1979, Moriwaki won a bronze medal of World Championships held in Paris. He was also expected to get medal of Olympic Games in 1980 but he couldn't because the 1980 Summer Olympic Games was boycotted by the *anese Government.

Moriwaki won a gold medal at the World Championships in 1981 at the age of 29.

As of 2010, he coaches at Kokushikan Women's Judo Club.

Achievements

• 1970 - Inter-highschool championships (light weight) 1st
• 1974 - World University Championships (light weight) 1st
• 1975 - All-*an Selected Championships (light weight) 3rd
• 1976 - All-*an Selected Championships (light weight) 3rd

- Kodokan Cup (-60:kg) 1st

• 1977 - All-*an Selected Championships (-60:kg) 1st
• 1978 - Jigoro Kano Cup (-60:kg) 2nd

- All-*an Selected Championships (-60:kg) 3rd- Kodokan Cup (-60:kg) 2nd

• 1979 - World Championships (-60:kg) 3rd

- All-*an Selected Championships (-60:kg) 2nd- Kodokan Cup (-60:kg) 2nd

• 1980 - All-*an Selected Championships (-60:kg) 1st
• 1981 - World Championships (-60:kg) 1st

- All-*an Selected Championships (-60:kg) 2nd

References

External links

• Yasuhiko Moriwaki at JudoInside.com