Zobrazení zdroje stránky Kosei Inoue

[[File:kosei_inoue.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Kosei Inoue]]
井上康生<br>
いのうえ こうせい<br>

{{JPN}} 15.05.1978

==Bio==
He was born in Miyakonojo what is city on island Kyushu.

He is from judo family. His older brother [[Tomokazu Inoue|Tomokazu]] was elite judo player.

For many experts he is the best judoka in history of judo contests (shia).

He is married with Japan model and TV personality Aki Higashihara. They have 2 children.

==Career and Style==
Inoue was stocky, stylish, powerful and very fast (for heavyweights) judo player. He had very strong work ethic. He exceled mainly in ashi-waza but all his judo techniques were impresive. His uchi-mata was almost ideal. It's very hard to do the technique ideal way in the match and his uchi-mata was always like from handbook.

During his top shape career (1999-2003) he lost only two matches against [[Antal Kovács]] in a 1999 cup tournament and in 2001 teams cup between Europe and Asia.

After winning his third 2003 World Championships in Japan he met his future wife Aki. She changed his life for sure. He lost something from his unbeatable, untouchable (psysics and chemics work always).

In 2004 Athens Olympic Games he was defending his gold medal but he failed.

01.09.2005 he won famous Kano Cup but during the tournament he injuried shoulder and he had to miss 2005 World Championships and other tournaments later. Recovery took almost 2 years.

He came back in 2007 but in Heavyweight (+100kg) what surprised many people. Among Heavyweighters he was not such succesful and when he lost change to fight at 2008 Beijing Olympic Games he decided retire.

He became a coach and he was sent to study European judo in Edinburg (Great Britain). There he stayed till 2011.

==Resuts==
===Olympic Games===
{| class="wikitable" 
! style="background: silver" width="50" | Year
! style="background: silver" width="50" | Age
! style="background: silver" width="120" | Category
! style="background: silver" | 1/64
! style="background: silver" | 1/32
! style="background: silver" | 1/16
! style="background: silver" | Quarter-Finals
! style="background: silver" | Semi-Finals
! style="background: silver" | Repechage
! style="background: silver" | Final Match

|- align="left"
| align="center"| 2000 || align="center"| 27.1 || Half-Heavyweigh  || - || '''W'''<br>{{CUB}} [[Yosvani Kessel]] || '''W'''<br>{{NZL}} [[Daniel Gowing]] || '''W'''<br>{{ISR}} [[Ariel Zeevi]] || '''W'''<br>{{ITA}} [[Luigi Guido]] || - || bgcolor=gold|'''W'''<br>{{CAN}} [[Nicolas Gill]]
|- align="left"
| align="center"| 2004 || align="center"| 27.1 || Half-Heavyweigh  || '''W'''<br>{{BIH}} [[Amel Mekić]] || '''W'''<br>{{HUN}} [[Antal Kovács]] || '''W'''<br>{{AUS}} [[Martin Kelly]] || '''L'''<br>{{BEL}} [[Elco van der Geest]] || - || '''L'''<br>{{AZE}} [[Mövlud Mirəliyev]] || -
|}

===World Championships===
{| class="wikitable" 
! style="background: silver" width="50" | Year
! style="background: silver" width="50" | Age
! style="background: silver" width="120" | Category
! style="background: silver" | 1/64
! style="background: silver" | 1/32
! style="background: silver" | 1/16
! style="background: silver" | Quarter-Finals
! style="background: silver" | Semi-Finals
! style="background: silver" | Repechage
! style="background: silver" | Repechage
! style="background: silver" | Repechage
! style="background: silver" | Bronze Match
! style="background: silver" | Final Match

|- align="left"
| align="center"| 1999 || align="center"| 25.1 || Half-Heavyweight || BYE || '''W'''<br>{{ROU}} [[Radu Ivan]] || '''W'''<br>{{UZB}} [[Kamol Muradov]] || '''W'''<br>{{FRA}} [[Stéphane Traineau]] || '''W'''<br>{{ISR}} [[Ariel Zeevi]] || - || - || - || - || bgcolor=gold|'''W'''<br>{{KOR}} [[Seong-Ho Jang]] 
|- align="left"
| align="center"| 2001 || align="center"| 26.1 || Half-Heavyweight || '''W'''<br>{{BEL}} [[Elco van der Geest]] || '''W'''<br>{{EST}} [[Martin Padar]] || '''W'''<br>{{BRA}} [[Mário Sabino Júnior]] || '''W'''<br>{{KAZ}} [[Askhat Zhitkeyev]] || '''W'''<br>{{FRA}} [[Ghislain Lemaire]] || - || - || - || - || bgcolor=gold|'''W'''<br>{{HUN}} [[Antal Kovács]]
|- align="left"
| align="center"| 2003 || align="center"| 27.1 || Half-Heavyweight || BYE || '''W'''<br>{{SVK}} [[Zoltán Pálkovács]] || '''W'''<br>{{ESP}} [[Iván Vega]] || '''W'''<br>{{GEO2}} [[Iveri Jikurauli]] || '''W'''<br>{{CAN}} [[Nicolas Gill]] || - || - || - || - || bgcolor=gold|'''W'''<br>{{FRA}} [[Ghislain Lemaire]]
|- align="left"
| height=40, align="center"| 2005 || align="center"| - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- align="left"
| align="center"| 2007 || align="center"| 25.1 || Heavyweight || '''W'''<br>{{PER}} [[Carlos Zegarra]] || '''L'''<br>{{FRA}} [[Tedy Riner]] || - || - || - || '''W'''<br>{{BLR}} [[Yury Rybak]] || '''W'''<br>{{GER}} [[Tino Bierau]] || '''W'''<br>{{CUB}} [[Óscar Brayson]] || '''L'''<br>{{BRA}} [[João Gabriel Schlittler|João Schlittler]] || -
|}

==Notes==
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==Links==
*[http://www.judoinside.com/judoka/view/1003 JudoInside.com FactFiles]
*[http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/in/kosei-inoue-1.html Sports-Reference.com]
*[http://www.facebook.com/kosei.inoue.71 Facebook]

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