Ai Shishime

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Ai Shishime ( Japanese 志 々 目 愛 Shishime Ai ; * January 25, 1994 ) is a Japanese judoka . She was world champion in 2017, second in 2018 and third in 2019.

Athletic career

Ai Shishime fights in half-light weight, the weight class up to 52 kilograms. In 2012 she was Junior Asian Champion. In 2013 she won a bronze medal at the Universiade in Kazan . At the U21 World Championships in 2013, she finished seventh.

In 2016 she won the title at the Asian Championships in Tashkent. Three months later she won her first Grand Slam tournament in Tyumen. In May 2017 she won the Asian Championships in Hong Kong. Three months later at the World Championships in Budapest , she defeated the Russian Natalja Kusjutina in the quarter -finals, Majlinda Kelmendi from Kosovo in the semifinals and her compatriot Natsumi Tsunoda in the final .

In 2018, Ai Shishime won the Grand Slam tournament in Düsseldorf. At the 2018 World Championships in Baku , she defeated Russian Kusjutina in the quarter-finals, as in the previous year, and in the semifinals she won against Brazilian Érika Miranda . In the final, she met her compatriot Uta Abe, who was six years her junior, and lost. In 2019 Shishime won the Grand Slam tournament in Paris, defeating her compatriot Matsumi Tsunoda in the final. At the 2019 World Championships in Tokyo, Shishime lost to Majlinda Kelmendi in the quarter-finals, and Ai Shishime won a bronze medal by winning the hope round over Chelsie Giles from Britain and Amandine Buchard from France.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
personal data
SURNAME Shishime, Ai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese judoka
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1994