Ryunosuke Haga

Ryunosuke Haga is a male Japanese retired judoka and 2015 world champion in the under 100 kg division. His favoured technique is Uchi Mata.
Born in Miyazaki, Haga started judo at the age of 5. He won the gold medal in the 100 kg weight class at the 2010 World Juniors Championships in Agadir.
In 2011, Haga won the Shenzhen Universiade. In 2015, he won the gold medal in the Half-heavyweight division at the 2015 World Championships.
Haga won the 2015 Tokyo Grand Slam and the 2015 Düsseldorf Grand Prix.
Bronze medalist in the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Haga's father, Yoshio, was also a judoka. Like his father who was a winner of the Kodokan Cup, he won the competition in 2010 and 2011. Furthermore, he maintains a decade-long friendship with Ōzeki Kirishima Tetsuo, a professional sumo wrestler.