Chizuru Arai

Chizuru Arai ( Japanese 新 井 千 鶴 Arai Chizuru ; born November 1, 1993 ) is a Japanese judoka . She won two individual world championships by 2018.

Athletic career

Arai fights in the middleweight division, the weight class up to 70 kilograms. In 2012 she was U20 Asian champion, in 2013 she was runner-up at the U21 World Championships. At the Asian Games in 2014 , she won the silver medal behind South Korean Kim Seong-yeon in the individual competition . She won the team competition with the Japanese women's team. In 2015 she won with the team at the World Championships in Astana . In the individual competition, she finished fifth after losing to the French Gévrise Émane and Fanny Posvite . At the All- Japanese Championships, Arai lost in 2016 to Haruka Tachimoto , who also became Olympic champion four months later.

Chizuru Arai won her first world title in singles at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest after defeating Yuri Alvear from Colombia in the semifinals and María Pérez from Puerto Rico in the final. Two days later, the Japanese team also won the mixed competition. In 2018 in Baku , Arai repeated its success from the previous year. In individual, she won the quarterfinals against Alvear and in the semifinals against Pérez. With the final victory over Frenchwoman Marie-Ève ​​Gahié , Arai won her second individual title, three days later the Japanese team won the mixed competition.

Web links

• Tournament results at judoinside.com

Footnotes

1. ↑ 2014 Asian Games at judoinside.com
2. ↑ The match balance at judoinside.com lists the individual fights at the major tournaments.