Yoshisada yonezuka biography of williams

Olympic Judo coach

Born	(1937-05-19)May 19, 1937
Died	October 18, 2014(2014-10-18) (aged 77) Hackensack, New Jersey, U.S.

Yoshisada Yonezuka (米塚 義定, Yonezuka Yoshisada, May 19, 1937 – October 18, 2014), was a Judo instructor and two time U.S.

Olympic Judo Team coach.

Their grandfather, Yoshisada Yonezuka (Cranford, N.J. Cranford Judo & Karate Center) coached two Olympic Teams.

Their grandfather, Yoshisada Yonezuka (Cranford, N.J. Cranford Judo & Karate Center) coached two Olympic Teams.

He began studying judo at the Cranford Judo and Karate Center with Yoshisada Yonezuka, a former United States Olympic judo coach.

Yoshisada Yonezuka founded the judo program at NJIT in the mid's; A world renowned coach, he is considered among the world's elite practitioners and.

The Yonezuka family patriarch Yoshisada Yonezuka who passed away in served as the Head Coach of both the 19USA Judo Olympic.

Williams Coaches: Jhonny Prado Nick Yonezuka German Velazco The Yonezuka family patriarch Yoshisada Yonezuka who passed away in.

Personal life

He began training in track and sumo as a child. In 1954, he began to train in judo in high school and became the Northern Japan High School Champion in 1955. He entered Nihon University in 1956.^[1] His children includes a son, Nicolas Yonezuka and a daughter, Natacha Yonezuka-Gullo.^[2] Yonezuka died at Hackensack University Medical Center Hackensack, New Jersey, on October 18, 2014, of complications of Myelodysplastic syndrome, a rare form of blood cancer that resembles acute leukemia.

A bone marrow drive was attempted to no avail.^[3]

Martial arts career

After defeating nine 2nd degree blackbelts in succession at the Kodokan