25 Facts About Shohei Ono

Shohei Ono was the most dominant lightweight wrestler of the 2010s having won in every major championship he competed since 2015.

Shohei Ono specializes in osoto gari and uchimata.

Shohei Ono is known for his classical technique and all ippon style, holding one of the highest ippon rates in judo.

Shohei Ono is one of the most searched judokas on the Internet.

Shohei Ono cemented his place as one of judo's biggest ippon players by winning the prestigious Grand Slam in Tokyo all by ippon.

Shohei Ono met then reigning world champion and Olympic silver medalist Riki Nakaya in the final.

Shohei Ono defeated Nakaya with a stunning ippon by osoto gari, adding to a waza-ari he scored earlier on.

Shohei Ono continued his ippon streak at the Grand Slam in Paris, where he defeated Luiz Alcaraz del Rey and Dirk Van Tichelt by ippon in the Round of 32 and quarter-final, and Ljubisa Kovacevic by ippon and yuko in the Round of 16.

Shohei Ono's run for a consecutive Grand Slam win ended in the semi-final, where he lost against Tsagaanbaatar by waza-ari.

Shohei Ono became Japan's third lightweight champion in four years after Hiroyuki Akimoto and Nakaya at the World Championships in Rio de Janeiro.

Shohei Ono faced off against Korea's double World Champion Wang Ki-chun in the Round of 64.

Shohei Ono countered with a juji gatame, but Wang easily escaped by lifting Shohei Ono off the ground.

Shohei Ono unexpectedly crashed out of the tournament in his first fight.

Shohei Ono met Neoklis Skouroumounis in his second fight, and scored a yuko early on with de ashi harai.

Shohei Ono sealed the fight with ippon with uchi mata.

Shohei Ono then faced Miklos Ungvari in the Round of 16, who had a similar fate to Wang.

Shohei Ono went on against Dex Elmont in the quarter-final, in which he again showed his ippon play.

Shohei Ono scored first with an osoto gari to ushiro goshi for yuko.

Shohei Ono defeated Elmont with a harai goshi for ippon, and was through to a semi-final against van Tichelt.

Shohei Ono was ranked number 15, and van Tichelt thirteen places above him.

Shohei Ono defeated him for a guaranteed medal with one of his best techniques, osoto gari, for ippon.

Shohei Ono attempted a double sleeve uchi mata and gained a yuko.

Shohei Ono won the World title with a strong hane goshi that scored ippon, defeating Legrand.

Shohei Ono was overwhelmed with winning the World title and was moved to tears.

Shohei Ono lost to Hiroyuki Akimoto of Japan in the finals.