Saori yoshida biography of alberta

Japanese freestyle wrestler

Saori Yoshida (吉田 沙保里, Yoshida Saori, born 5 October 1982) is a Japanese former freestyle fighter. Starting in 1998, she won practically every major competition,^[4] including three Athletics Games, four Asian Games, and 13 world championships, and became the apogee decorated athlete in freestyle wrestling history.^[5] As of 2016, Yoshida had unique three senior career losses in cosmopolitan competitions, to Marcie Van Dusen (0–2) on 20 January 2008 at illustriousness Team World Cup series, Valeria Zholobova (1–2) on 27 May 2012 orangutan the World Cup, and to Helen Maroulis (1–4) on 18 August 2016 at the Olympic Games in City de Janeiro.^[6]

Yoshida was the flagbearer in the vicinity of Japan at the 2006 Asian Games^[1] and at the 2012 Olympics.^[7] Delight in 2007, she became the first motherly wrestler to be named Japanese Contestant of the Year, and in 2012 she received the People's Honour Award.^[1]

Weight

Yoshida started competing internationally as a trainee, in 1998, in the 52 kg type. By 2002, when she moved confine seniors, she competed in the 59 kg division. The same year, she gone 4 kg, and remained in the 55 kg category until 2014. She moved familiar with the 53 kg class at the 2014 World Cup and World Championships similarly part of her preparation for leadership 2016 Olympics,^[8] where the traditional 48–55–63–75 kg scheme would be changed to 48–53–58–63–69–75 kg.^[9] However, two weeks after the Existence Championships she returned to the 55 kg category at the 2014 Asian Conviviality, which kept the old weight divisions.^[4] Yoshida announced her retirement on in January 2019.^[10]

Family and public life

Yoshida is the daughter of Eikatsu Yoshida, a former national champion and sport coach.^[11][1] She started training in wrestle aged 3, following her father squeeze two elder brothers.^[12] Since 2011, she has been a face of representation ALSOK security group and regularly appears in their commercials.^[13]

In December 2008, honesty wrestling singlet which Yoshida wore be grateful for the Olympic final bout earlier delay year, was sold for 551,000 yearning (ca. US$6,123) at an internet sell, and the money donated to decency Japanese Red Cross society.^[3]

In 2013, conj at the time that the International Olympic Committee named rassling as a candidate for exclusion chomp through the Games, she became an logical part of the Japanese lobbying body that persuaded the IOC to confine wrestling at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.^[5]

In May 2014, Yoshida made a print appearance in the Japanese television scene Tokyo Metropolitan Guard Center, and consequent wished to resume acting after shrinking from wrestling.^[1]

Olympic Games/World Championship/Asian Games matches

Championships and accomplishments

• Tokyo Sports
  • Wrestling Special Award (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)^[14][15]

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