country updated club birth_place weight height sport birth_date rank residence article_title
canada 3 september 2012 london-western wrestling club western ontario mustangs takahashi dojo toronto , ontario 57 kg lb 0 -lrb- 2012 -rrb- 0 1.60 wrestling judo 7 august 1958 black '' sandan '' london , ontario ray takahashi

ray takahashi

ray takahashi -lrb- born 7 august 1958 -rrb- is a wrestler , judoka , coach , lecturer , and author who represented canada in wrestling at the 1976 and 1984 summer olympic games , the 1982 and 1983 wrestling world championships , the 1978 commonwealth games , and the 1983 pan-american games .
takahashi won gold in the flyweight division at the commonwealth games , and placed fourth at his second olympic games .
he holds 16 canadian national wrestling titles and was inducted into the canadian wrestling hall of fame in 1991 .
he is also ranked `` san-dan '' -lrb- third-degree black belt -rrb- in the japanese martial art judo , the son of noted canadian judoka masao takahashi and june takahashi , and the brother of fellow olympian phil takahashi and olympic coach tina takahashi .
takahashi is currently a lecturer in kinesiology and the head coach of the men 's and women 's wrestling teams at the university of western ontario .
in 2005 he co-authored a book titled `` mastering judo '' with his parents and three siblings , and is credited with researching and writing the first draft of the book .
