A norbornene ring-opened polymer hydrogenated product having a
syndiotactic structure and a process for producing the same are
disclosed. The ring-opened polymer hydrogenated product contains a
repeating unit originating from a polycyclic norbornene monomer with
three or more rings in the polymer repeating units, having a weight
average molecular weight of 500 to 1,000,000, and having a racemo diad
proportion of 51% or more. The process comprises a step of polymerizing a
polycyclic norbornene monomer having three or more rings by solution
polymerization using a group 6 transition metal compound with a hydroxyl
group-containing aryloxy group or the like bonded thereto as a
polymerization catalyst to obtain a ring-opened polymer and a step of
hydrogenating double bonds in the main chain of the ring-opened polymer.