is an amateur Japanese freestyle

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, who competes in the middleweight category (under 74 kg). Takatani represented Japan at the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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, but was eliminated in the qualifying round. At the

2016 Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro ...

he reached the quarterfinals, beating Talgat Ilyasov and

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before losing to Galymzhan Userbayev. He competed in the 92kg event at the

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held in Belgrade, Serbia.

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NBC Olympics Profile
* 1989 births Living people Japanese male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for Japan Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2016 Summer Olympics People from Kyōtango Sportspeople from Kyoto Prefecture World Wrestling Championships medalists Wrestlers at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-wrestling-bio-stub