Kokoro Kageura

Kokoro Kageura (影浦 心) is a Japanese judoka.

He won a medal at the 2019 World Judo Championships. He won the 2021 World Judo Championships in the heavyweight division.

In 2017, he won the gold medal in the men's +100 kg event at the Summer Universiade held in Taipei, Taiwan.

In 2020 he became world-renowned for after ending the 10-year unbeaten streak of legendary French judoka Teddy Riner during the 2020 Judo Grand Slam Paris, beating him by an ippon and consequently causing him his first defeat in years.