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Japanese judoka, winner of the All-Japan Judo Championships in 1948 and Olympic coach for the All-Japan Judo Federation in the early 1970s. As coach and trainer at Tenri University he served as a Japanese national team coach and worked intensively with Anton Geesink, who trained at Tenri annually from 1956 pursuing the 1961 World and 1964 Olympic titles.

Ranks (1)

• linkKōdōkan Jūdō

  military_tech8 dan 2

  Probable

  The USJF biography of Matsuo Takeda, who trained at Tenri University under Matsumoto in 1968, refers to him as 8th dan; exact grade date not established.

  Dan-Kyu System

  expand_morefact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  2 sources

  fact_check

  The USJF biography of Matsuo Takeda, who trained at Tenri University under Matsumoto in 1968, refers to him as 8th dan; exact grade date not established.

  assessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  "A Japanese judoka, Yasuichi Matsumoto, was born on May 25, 1918 and died on March 6, 1996. He won the All-Japan Judo Championships in 1948."

  — (1996). Yasuichi Matsumoto: Judo. USAdojo linkinfo

  "Geesink had previously trained with Yasuichi Matsumoto at Tenri University in Nara. Matsumoto put him up against Japanese judokas in training, in the hope that one of them would beat him, but in the knowledge that it was unlikely. Geesink would later say that this was his finishing school."

  — Anton Geesink obituary, The Guardian, 6 September 2010link

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  Anton Geesink

  linkKōdōkan Jūdō 3

  Confirmed

  The Guardian obituary and JudoInside record that Geesink trained with Yasuichi Matsumoto at Tenri University in Nara as preparation for the 1961 World and 1964 Olympic titles; Geesink called it his finishing school. NRC adds that from 1956 he trained several months each year in Japan at the invitation of the Japanese national coach Matsumoto.

  sports_kabaddiTenri University badge (1956-1964)

  expand_morefact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  3 sources

  fact_check

  The Guardian obituary and JudoInside record that Geesink trained with Yasuichi Matsumoto at Tenri University in Nara as preparation for the 1961 World and 1964 Olympic titles; Geesink called it his finishing school. NRC adds that from 1956 he trained several months each year in Japan at the invitation of the Japanese national coach Matsumoto.

  assessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  "Hij werkte intensief samen met leermeester Yasuichi Matsumoto, de veelgeprezen trainer en Japanse bondscoach, met wie de judoka een innige band smeedde."

  — Stouwdam, Henk. (2014). 9.500 gulden, sportschool en twee benzinepompenlinkinfo

  "Geesink had previously trained with Yasuichi Matsumoto at Tenri University in Nara. Matsumoto put him up against Japanese judokas in training, in the hope that one of them would beat him, but in the knowledge that it was unlikely. Geesink would later say that this was his finishing school."

  — Anton Geesink obituary, The Guardian, 6 September 2010link

  "Geesink spent three months in Japan at Tenri University in Nara, where he worked uniquely on his Ne-Waza, or ground technique, which he viewed as the judo of the future."

  — Geesink paved his way at the 1961 World Championships in Paris, JudoInsidelink

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