is an amateur Japanese Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's featherweight category. He won two gold medals in his division at the 2009 Asian Wrestling Championships in Pattaya, Thailand, and at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, defeating India's Jogender Singh and pinning Kyrgyzstan's Kanybek Zholchubekov, respectively. Hasegawa is also a member of the wrestling team for Fukuichi Gyogyo Co. Ltd., and is coached and trained by Hiroshi Ohta.

Hasegawa represented Japan at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed in the men's 55 kg class. He defeated Belarus' Elbek Tazhyieu in the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out the quarterfinal match to Danish wrestler and two-time Olympian Håkan Nyblom, who was able to score four points in two straight periods, leaving Hasegawa without a single point.

Kohei Hasegawa

References

External links

Profile – International Wrestling Database

NBC Olympics Profile

1984 births

Living people

Olympic wrestlers for Japan

Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Wrestlers at the 2010 Asian Games

Asian Games medalists in wrestling

Sportspeople from Shizuoka Prefecture

Wrestlers at the 2014 Asian Games

Japanese male sport wrestlers

Asian Games gold medalists for Japan

Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games

Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games

Asian Wrestling Championships medalists

21st-century Japanese people

Kohei Hasegawa