{{Short description|Japanese judoka (born 1977)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{MedalTableTop}} {{MedalCountry | {{JPN}} }} {{MedalSport |Men's Judo}} {{MedalCompetition|Asian Championships}} {{MedalGold | 2005 Tashkent | -90 kg}} {{MedalBottom}}
{{nihongo|'''Seigo Saito'''|齋藤 制剛|Saitō Seigō|born 4 May 1977}} is a retired Japanese judoka.
Saito is from Sapporo, Hokkaidō.<ref name="近代柔道">{{cite news|publisher=Baseball Magazine Sha Co., Ltd|title=近代柔道 2010年9月号 入門！一流の技術 -第75回 齋藤制剛5段の「内股」-|date=2010-09-22}}</ref> He belonged to Asahi Kasei after graduation from Kokushikan University in 2000.
Saito was good at Uchimata and Newaza in high-school days and was expected to get medal of Olympic Games or World Championships in the future.<ref name="近代柔道"/> But he was not able to use the skill of them by the trouble of knee like Anterior cruciate ligament injury since 2000.<ref name="近代柔道"/>
In 2005, he won a gold medal at the Asian Championships and All-Japan Selected Championships with the skill that he learned newly like Kata guruma, Ōuchi gari and Kuchiki taoshi. But he was not chosen as a Japanese representative at the World Championships held in Cairo.
He has coached judo at Asahi Kasei since 2010. Among his students is Tatsuki Masubuchi Yohei Takai and so on.<ref name="Asahi Kasei">{{cite news|publisher=Asahi Kasei|url=http://www.asahi-kasei.co.jp/asahi/jp/csr/sports/judo/member/index.html|title=旭化成柔道部 -選手・スタッフ紹介-|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100217222818/http://www.asahi-kasei.co.jp/asahi/jp/csr/sports/judo/member/index.html|archivedate=2010-02-17}}</ref>
His younger brother, {{nihongo|Masamichi|順道}} is also famous judoka and won a gold medal at the Kodokan Cup in 2001.
==Achievements== *1994 - All-Japan Junior Championships (-86 kg) ''2nd'' :: - Inter-highschool championships (-86 kg) ''3rd'' *1995 - Kodokan Cup (-86 kg) ''2nd'' :: - Inter-highschool championships (-86 kg) ''1st'' *1996 - Jigoro Kano Cup (-86 kg) ''3rd'' :: - All-Japan Selected Championships (-86 kg) ''3rd'' :: - All-Japan Junior Championships (-86 kg) ''1st'' *1997 - Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) ''2nd'' :: - All-Japan Junior Championships (-86 kg) ''1st'' :: - All-Japan University Championships (-86 kg) ''3rd'' *1998 - All-Japan University Championships (-90 kg) ''3rd'' *1999 - Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) ''3rd'' :: - All-Japan University Championships (-90 kg) ''2nd'' *2000 - All-Japan Businessgroup Championships (-90 kg) ''2nd'' *2001 - All-Japan Selected Championships (-90 kg) ''2nd'' :: - Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) ''1st'' *2002 - All-Japan Selected Championships (-90 kg) ''3rd'' :: - All-Japan Businessgroup Championships (-90 kg) ''1st'' *2003 - Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) ''2nd'' :: - All-Japan Businessgroup Championships (-90 kg) ''1st'' *2004 - Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) ''1st'' :: - All-Japan Businessgroup Championships (-90 kg) ''1st'' *2005 - Asian Championships (-90 kg) ''1st'' :: - All-Japan Selected Championships (-90 kg) ''2nd'' :: - Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) ''1st'' *2006 - All-Japan Selected Championships (-90 kg) ''1st'' :: - Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) ''1st'' *2007 - Jigoro Kano (-90 kg) ''3rd'' :: - All-Japan Selected Championships (-90 kg) ''2nd'' :: - Kodokan Cup (-90 kg) ''1st'' *2008 - All-Japan Businessgroup Championships (-90 kg) ''2nd'' *2009 - All-Japan Businessgroup Championships (-90 kg) ''2nd''
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