Tomio Imamura - Wikipedia

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Tomio Imamura
Born	(1958-10-07) 7 October 1958 (age 65) Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
Style	Shotokan Karate
Teacher(s)	Masatoshi Nakayama
Rank	7th Dan karate (JKA)

Tomio Imamura (Imamura Tomio, 7 October 1958) is a Japanese master of Shotokan karate.^[1] He has won the JKA's version of the world championships for kumite on 2 occasions. He has also won the JKA All-Japan championships for kumite on 2 occasions.^[1] He is currently an instructor of the Japan Karate Association.^[1]

Biography[edit]

Tomio Imamura was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan on 7 October 1958. He studied at Takushoku University. His karate training began during his 1st year of university.

Competition[edit]

Tomio Imamura has had considerable success in karate competition.

Major Tournament Success[edit]

36th JKA All Japan Karate Championship (1993) - 2nd Place Kumite
4th Shoto World Cup Karate Championship Tournament (Tokyo, 1992) - 1st Place Kumite
33rd JKA All Japan Karate Championship (1990) - 1st Place Kumite
32nd JKA All Japan Karate Championship (1989) - 2nd Place Kumite
31st JKA All Japan Karate Championship (1988) - 1st Place Kumite
2nd Shoto World Cup Karate Championship Tournament - 1st Place Kumite
30th JKA All Japan Karate Championship (1987) - 3rd Place Kumite
29th JKA All Japan Karate Championship (1986) - 2nd Place Kumite
26th JKA All Japan Karate Championship (1983) - 2nd Place Kumite

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c JKA: Instructor profiles – Sensei Tomio Imamura7th Dan Archived 2008-01-31 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 15 February 2014.

v t e JKA All-Japan Male Champions – Kumite
1957 to 1989	1957: Hirokazu Kanazawa 1958: Hirokazu Kanazawa / Takayuki Mikami 1959: Takayuki Mikami 1960: Masaki Sato 1961: Tetsuhiko Asai 1962: Hiroshi Shirai 1963: Keinosuke Enoeda 1965: Katsuya Kisaka 1966: Hideo Ochi 1967: Hideo Ochi 1968: Masaaki Ueki 1969: Takeshi Oishi 1970: Takeshi Oishi 1971: Takeshi Oishi 1972: Masayoshi Kagawa 1973: Takeshi Oishi 1974: Masahiko Tanaka 1975: Masahiko Tanaka 1976: Yoshiharu Osaka 1978: Toshihiro Mori 1979: Fujikiyo Omura 1980: Toshihiro Mori 1981: Takayuki Tsuchii 1982: Masashi Sakata 1983: Hideo Yamamoto 1984: Hideo Yamamoto 1985: Masayoshi Kagawa 1986: Yasunori Ogura 1987: Masaaki Yokomichi 1988: Tomio Imamura 1989: Masayoshi Kagawa
1990–1999	1990**: Tomio Imamura 1991: Katsutoshi Shiina 1992: Tatsuya Naka 1993: Katsutoshi Shiina 1994: Katsutoshi Shiina 1995: Takuya Taniyama 1996: Takuya Taniyama 1997: Toshito Kokubun 1998: Takuya Taniyama 1999: Kunio Kobayashi
2000 – present	2000: Toshito Kokubun 2001: Takuya Taniyama 2002: Kunio Kobayashi 2003: Kunio Kobayashi 2004: Kunio Kobayashi 2005: Koji Ogata 2006: Ryosuke Shimizu 2007: Takuya Taniyama 2008: Ryosuke Shimizu 2009: Yusuke Inokoshi 2010: Keisuke Nemoto 2011: Kazuaki Kurihara 2012: Keisuke Nemoto 2013: Keisuke Nemoto

v t e JKA World Champions - Male Kumite
1975 to 1983 - IAKF World Championships	1975: Masahiko Tanaka 1977: Masahiko Tanaka 1980: Toshihiro Mori 1983: Hideo Yamamoto
1985 - 2004 - Shoto Cup	1985: Minoru Kawawada 1987: Tomio Imamura 1990: Masayoshi Kagawa 1992: Tomio Imamura 1994: Pavlo Protopapa 1996: Don Sharp 1998*: Toshihito Kokubun 2000: Toshihito Kokubun 2004: Koji Ogata
2006 - present Funakoshi Gichin Cup	2006: Koji Ogata 2011: Rikiya Iimura
Notes	Between 1990 and 1999 there was a legal dispute between two groups claiming to be the official JKA - the Nakahara faction and the Matsuno faction. Before the dispute was settled in favour of the Nakahara faction both groups held world championships under the banner of the JKA. The results of the JKA (Matsuno faction) world championships are not detailed above.

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