Kazusa Ogawa

Kazusa Ogawa is the kind of athlete who makes you quietly respect the grind without ever needing the spotlight. Born in 1997 in Ichihara, Chiba, and living with congenital optic glioma, she's been putting in work on the tatami in a sport that doesn't reward flash, it rewards discipline and precision. Judo is one of those disciplines where the mental side is just as brutal as the physical: every match is a chess game at full speed, and you don't get there by accident. Her bronze in the women's 70 kg at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics is exactly the kind of result I find myself quietly rooting for.

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Kazusa Ogawa is a Japanese judoka born on February 16, 1997, in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture. She is an Aquarius by zodiac sign and the Year of the Ox by the traditional Japanese calendar. She has congenital optic glioma, with eyesight of about 0.01 in both eyes, competes at 70 kg, and won a bronze medal in that event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.

Name (English)

Kazusa Ogawa

Name (Japanese)

小川和紗

Reading

おがわ かずさ

Born

February 16, 1997 (age 29)

Origin

Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Judoka

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Ox

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E5%B7%9D%E5%92%8C%E7%B4%97
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108315885

Tags

• From Chiba Prefecture
• Judoka

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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