Shinji Saito
Shinji Saito | |
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| Born | Saitō Shinji June 29, 1989 |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | yo-yo performer |
Shinji Saito (斎藤 慎司, Saitō Shinji, born June 29, 1989) is a Japanese competitor and a performer in yo-yo. He won the World Yo-Yo Contest 8 times in 2A and 4 times in CB. He has the most world titles of any yo-yoer in the history of yo-yo competition.
Biography
He started practicing yo-yo in March 1998. As soon after starting yo-yo, he joined THP Japan Pro Spinners, Japanese branch of Team High Performance.
On April 5, 1998, he was certified as "Pro Spinner" who passed Hyper-level skills set by BANDAI at Toyland Fukushima.[1]
In 2005, he scored 100 points which is a perfect score in 2A. It was the first time in the history of the World Contest for someone to earn a perfect score.
In March 2008, he graduated Fukushimakita High School.
In April 2008, he was matriculated in Faculty of Business Administration of Asia University.[2]
Results
| 2A | ||||||||||||
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| Event | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
| World Yo-Yo Contest | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | |||
| Asia Pacific Yo-Yo Championships | 1st | 1st | ||||||||||
| Japan National Yo-Yo Contest | 1st | 3rd | 5th | 4th | 1st | |||||||
| East Japan Yo-Yo Contest | 3rd | 1st | ||||||||||
| Tokyo Regional Yo-Yo Contest | 2nd | 3rd | ||||||||||
| CB | ||||||||||||
| World Yo-Yo Contest | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||||||||
| 1A | ||||||||||||
| Japan National Yo-Yo Contest | 6th | |||||||||||
| Asia Pacific Yo-Yo Championships was established in 2003. The black coloured cells mean "The event was not be held int that year, or it does not exist anymore." | ||||||||||||
- Other results
- 4th Hyper Yo-Yo Japan Championships Preliminary Tohoku, Championship Division winner (1998 / BANDAI)
- 5th Hyper Yo-Yo Japan Championships Preliminary Hokkaido, Free Style Division 3rd place (August 15, 1999 / BANDAI)
- 5th Hyper Yo-Yo Japan Championships Final, Free Style Division 3rd place (1999 / BANDAI)
- 6th Hyper Yo-Yo Japan Championships Preliminary Hokkaido, Free Style Division champion (August 13, 2000 / BANDAI)[3]
- Hyper Yo-Yo Japan Championships Final, Free Style Division 4th place (September 24, 2000 / BANDAI)[4]
- JYYA Yo-Yo Contest 2001, Yo-Yo Free Style Division AA champion (November 5, 2001 / JYYA)[5]