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Goki Uemura

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Goki Uemura
Personal information
Born1943 (age 80–81)
OccupationJudoka
Sport
CountryCanada
SportJudo
Rank     8th dan black belt
ClubShin Bu Kan Judo Club

Goki Uemura (born 1943) is a Canadian judoka who represented Canada in the 1973 World Judo Championships in the -70 kg category. [1] He is one of just seventeen Canadian judoka to achieve the rank of hachidan (eighth dan)[2] and co-founded the Shin Bu Kan Judo Club in Etobicoke, Ontario in 1982, which later relocated in Mississauga, Ontario and is now also known as the Mississauga Judo Club.[3]

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  1. ^ Gill, Nicolas; Leyshon, Glynn (2019). Judoka: The History of Judo in Canada (Second ed.). Montreal: Marcel Broquet. p. 171.
  2. ^ Gill, Nicolas; Leyshon, Glynn (2019). Judoka: The History of Judo in Canada (Second ed.). Montreal: Marcel Broquet. p. 181.
  3. ^ "About". Mississauga Judo Club. Retrieved 29 June 2021.