Chiho Hamada

Chiho Hamada medal table
Wrestling
Japan
World Championship
gold	2014 Tashkent	up to 55 kg
Junior World Championships
gold	2012 Pattaya	up to 59 kg Juniors
Universities World Championship
gold	2014 Pécs	up to 55 kg

Chiho Hamada ( Japanese 浜 田 千 穂 , Hamada Chiho ; born November 17, 1992 ) is a Japanese wrestler . In 2014 she became world champion in the weight class up to 55 kg.

Career

Chiho Hamada started wrestling as a teenager in 1999. She is a student at NSSU (Nippon Sports Sciences University) and is trained by Shingo Matsumoto. From 2006 to 2012 she won the Asian Junior Championship (Cadets and Juniors) in various weight classes five times. In 2012 she was also Junior World Champion in Pattaya in the weight class up to 59 kg ahead of Hafize Sahin, Turkey, Feng Jiamin, China and Oksana Herhel, Ukraine.

In October 2012 she started at the Universities World Championships in Kuortane / Finland in the weight class up to 55 kg, but only came in 10th there. In December 2012, she was Japanese runner-up in the same weight class, where she was only marginally defeated in the final fight against Kanako Murata (1: 2 rounds, 3: 3 points, last rating for Murata). Also in 2013 she was runner-up in the Japanese weight class, losing in the final against the most successful female wrestler ever in the world, Saori Yoshida on points (0: 2 rounds, 1: 4 points).

In March 2014, she and Kanako Murata were part of the Japanese team at the Team World Cup in Tokyo. She was used twice in the weight class up to 55 kg, defeating Kelsey Campbell from the United States and Emese Barka from Hungary. In the final, which Japan won 8-0 against Russia, Kanako Murata wrestled. At the Asian Championships in Almaty, Chiho Hamada started in the weight class up to 55 kg, but disappointed there, because after a victory over Seo Shiphi, India, she was defeated by Guan Yajing from China, was eliminated and only came in 7th place. In July 2014, however, she managed to become student world champion in the same weight class in Pécs / Hungary, defeating the Russian Irina Ologonowa in the final. In September 2014 Chiho Hamada became world champion for the first time in the weight class up to 55 kg in Tashkent. She became the successor of her compatriot Saori Yoshida , who was three times Olympic champion and eleven times world champion in this weight class. Saori Yoshida started at the 2014 World Cup in the new weight class up to 53 kg body weight. Chiho Hamada defeated Katarzyna Krawczyk , Poland, Giullia Rodrigues, Brazil, Helen Maroulis , USA and Irina Ologonowa on the way to her success .

In March 2015 Chiho Hamada was part of the Japanese team that won the Team World Cup in St. Petersburg . In the weight class up to 53 kg, she defeated Roksana Zasina, Poland, Whitney Conder, United States, Anschela Dorogan, Azerbaijan and in the final battle also Maria Gurowa , Russia.

After that, however, her streak of success broke, because she could neither qualify for participation in the 2015 World Cup, nor for participation in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In December 2016 she became Japanese runner-up in the weight class up to 58 kg. In the final, she lost to Risako Kawai .

In 2017, Chiho Hamada was unable to start for a long time due to injury. She only took part in the Japanese championship again in December 2017 and took second place in the weight class up to 57 kg behind Katsuki Sakagami and in front of Akie Hanai and Sae Nanjo.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2006	1.	Asian Junior Championship (Cadets) in Bangkok	up to 43 kg	before Priyanka Singh, India and Nguyen Thi Minh, Vietnam
2008	1.	Asian Junior Championship (Cadets) in Tashkent	up to 52 kg	from Gulshaharat Talasowa, Kazakhstan and Nilufar Gadajewa, Uzbekistan
2010	2.	Klippan Lady Open	up to 55 kg	behind Tatjana Padilla , in front of Helen Maroulis and Trinnity Plessinger, all USA
2010	1.	Asian Junior Championship in Huangshau / China	up to 55 kg	before Duong Thi Lan, Vietnam and Lilja Schkirowa, Uzbekistan
2011	1.	Asian Junior Championship in Jakarta	up to 55 kg	in front of Dhanda Pooja, India, Batbaataryn Nomin-Erdene , Mongolia and Kim Kyeong-eun, South Korea
2012	1.	Asian Junior Championship in Almaty	up to 55 kg	before Duong Thi Lan, Kim Kyeong-eun and Ritu, India
2012	1.	Junior World Championships in Pattaya	up to 59 kg	before Hafize Sahin , Turkey, Feng Jiamin, China and Oksana Herhel, Ukraine
2012	10.	Universities World Cup in Kuortane / Finland	up to 55 kg	Winner: Irina Husjak , Ukraine ahead of Mariana Esanu, Moldova
2013	3.	World Cup in Ulan Bator	up to 55 kg	behind Helen Maroulis and Sündewiin Bjambatseren , Mongolia, together with Babita Kumari , India
2014	7th	Asian Championship in Almaty	up to 55 kg	after beating Seo Shiphi, India and losing to Guan Yajing, China
2014	1.	Universities World Cup in Pécs / Hungary	up to 55 kg	before Irina Ologonowa , Russia, Samantha Stewart, Canada and Tatjana Kit, Ukraine
2014	1.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 55 kg	in front of Pürewdordschiin Orkhon , Mongolia, Helen Maroulis , USA and Katarina Hanchar-Januschkewitsch, Belarus
2014	1.	World Cup in Tashkent	up to 55 kg	after victories over Katarzyna Krawczyk, Poland, Giulla Rodrigues, Brazil, Helen Maroulis, USA and Irina Ologonowa
2016	2.	"Ivan Yarigin" Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk	up to 53 kg	behind Lyubow Salnikowa, Russia, in front of Maria Gurowa, Russia and Sumiya Erdenechimeg, Mongolia
2016	5.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 58 kg	behind Grace Jacob Bullen, Norway, Jaquelin Estornell Elizastique, Cuba, Zhou Zhangting, China and Veronika Schumikowa, Russia

National championships and tournaments

(only senior area)

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2012	2.	Japanese championship	up to 55 kg	behind Kanako Murata, in front of Risako Kawai and Katsumi Sakagami
2013	2.	Japanese championship	up to 55 kg	behind Saori Yoshida , in front of Kanako Murata and Yuki Ikegami
2014	1.	Meiji Cup in Tokyo	up to 55 kg	in front of Hikari Sugawara, Anri Kimura and Yuki Kegame
2014	2.	Japanese championship	up to 53 kg	behind Saori Yoshida, in front of Nanami Irie and Mayu Mukaida
2015	3.	Japanese championship	up to 55 kg	behind Saori Yoshida and Hikari Sugawara
2016	2.	Japanese championship	up to 58 kg	behind Risako Kawai
2017	2.	Japanese championship	up to 57 kg	behind Katsuki Sakagami, in front of Akie Hanai and Sae Nanjo
2018	3.	Meiji Cup in Tokyo	up to 57 kg	behind Katsuki Sakagami and Akie Hanai, together with Sae Nanjo

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• WM = World Championship
• the Meiji Cup is not the Japanese championship that always takes place in December each year. The Meiji Cup is an invitation tournament that always takes place in June of each year and in which the four best wrestlers from the previous Japanese championship are entitled to start. The winners of the Meiji Cup usually represent the Japanese colors at the World Cup or, if necessary, at the Olympic Games

literature

• Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

• Profile of Chiho Hamada at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Website "www.japan-wrestling.jp"