Hiroaki Takahashi (高橋 宏明, Takahashi Hiroaki; born 12 April 1976) is a retired Japanese judoka. Takahashi is from Edogawa, Tokyo and belonged to Asahi Kasei after graduation from Chuo University in 1999. Takahashi was good at Uchimata and Osotogari. He won a gold medal at the Asian Championships held in Wenzhou, China and silver medal held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He was also participate All-Japan Championships 8 times from 2000 to 2007. Takahashi retired in 2007. Now, he coaches judo at Kodokan.
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