Hideaki Tomiyama

Hideaki Tomiyama ( Japanese 富山 英明 , Tomiyama Hideaki ; born November 16, 1957 in Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a former Japanese wrestler . He was Olympic champion in 1984 and multiple world champion in free style in bantamweight.

Career

Hideaki Tomiyama started wrestling as a teenager in high school in 1971. He then attended Nihon University in Chiyoda , Tokyo , where he began studying sports. There he was also strongly encouraged in the practice of wrestling. His trainer was Tomiaki Tsukuda. He concentrated fully on the free style. At a height of 1.60 meters, he wrestled throughout his career in bantamweight, the weight class up to 57 kg body weight.

He made his debut on the international wrestling mat in 1978 at the Asian Games in Bangkok . He won there ahead of Mohammad Azeem from Pakistan and Eim Eui-Kon from South Korea . In the same year he became world champion for the first time in Mexico City . He defeated u. a. the world class wrestler Randy Lewis from the United States, Busai Ibragimow from the Soviet Union , Dugarsürengiin Ojuunbold from Mongolia and Iwan Sochev from Bulgaria .

In 1979 he repeated his World Cup success in San Diego . He became world champion there for the second time with seven wins. He defeated, among others, Joe Corso from the United States and Sergei Beloglasow from the Soviet Union. It was very depressing for him that as a two-time world champion he could not take part in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow because Japan boycotted these games for political reasons.

But he started again at the 1981 World Cup in Skopje . At this world championship, a pool system was introduced for the first time, in which the two pool winners competed for the world championship title. Hideaki Tomiyama surprisingly lost in his pool to the Bulgarian Stefan Ivanov and was therefore only second in his pool. He therefore no longer had the opportunity to fight for the world title against the other pool winner Sergei Beloglasow. But he won at least the bronze medal with a victory over the other pool runner-up Seip Hosseine from Iran .

In 1982, Hideaki Tomiyama won the Asian Games for the second time in New Delhi . He won there ahead of Askari Mohammadian from Iran and Ashok Kumar from India . At the World Championships this year in Edmonton , he was the pool winner and fought against Anatoly Beloglasow , the twin brother of Sergei Beloglasow, for the world title. He was defeated in this fight on points and had to be content with the runner-up world title.

Also at the 1983 World Cup in Kiev , Hideaki Tomiyama was again in the final. Again this time against Sergei Beloglasow. In a tough battle he was defeated on points and became vice world champion again.

At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles he had no serious competition for the Olympic victory because the strong wrestlers from the Eastern Bloc countries were missing because of the "Revenge Olympic Boycott" in Los Angeles. He therefore won the gold medal with five wins ahead of Barry Davis from the United States.

After these Olympics, Hideakit Tomiyama resigned as an active wrestler. He first became a wrestling coach at Nihon University. He later became head coach at this university and received the title of professor. In addition, he coached the Japanese national wrestling team in free style for many years. From 2000 to 2007 he was technical director of the Japanese Wrestling Federation. In August 2008 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, Ba = bantam weight, up to 57 kg body weight)

• 1978, 1st place , Asian Games in Bangkok , F, Ba, ahead of Mohammad Azeem, Pakistan , Kim Eui-Kon, South Korea , Kmalabdoo, Iraq and Ri Ho-Oyong, North Korea
• 1978, 1st place , World Cup in Mexico City, F, Ba, with victories over Joszef Konczak, Poland , Hassan Zare, Iran , Randy Lewis , USA , Busai Ibragimow , USSR, Dugarsürengiin Ojuunbold , Mongolia and Iwan Sochew, Bulgaria
• 1978, 1st place , World Cup in Toledo (Ohio) , F, Ba, in front of Gurgen Bagdasarjan , USSR, Jack Reinwand, USA and Luis Ocana, Cuba
• 1979, 1st place , World Cup in San Diego , F, Ba, with victories over Kim Eui-Kon, Risto Darkow, Yugoslavia , Marian Skubacz , Poland, Aurel Neagu , Romania, Imre Szalontai , Hungary , Joe Corso , USA and Sergei Beloglasow , USSR
• 1981, 2nd place , World Universities Championship in Bucharest , F, Ba, behind Anatoli Beloglasow , USSR and in front of Aurel Neagu, David Cooke, USA and Georgi Kaltschew , Bulgaria
• 1981, 3rd place , World Championships in Skopje , F, Ba, with victories over Sandor Nemeth, Hungary, Sean Berry, Canada, Brian Aspen , Great Britain and Hans Partsch , FRG , one defeat against Stefan Iwanow , Bulgaria, and one win against Seip Hosseini, Iran
• 1981, 1st place , "World Super Championships" in Nagoya , F, Ba, ahead of John Azevedo , USA and Hideyuki Gassa, Japan
• 1982, 1st place , Asian Games in New Delhi , F, Ba, ahead of Askari Mohammadian , Iran and Ashok Kumar, India
• 1982, 2nd place , World Championships in Edmonton , F, Ba, behind Anatoli Beloglasow and in front of Stefan Iwanow, John Azevedo, Aurel Neagu and Jon Yoo-Lee, South Korea;
• 1983, 2nd place , World Cup in Kiev , F, Ba, behind Sergei Beloglasow and in front of Stefan Iwanow, Rafael Torres , Cuba, Bernd Bobrich , GDR and Andrei Jerndrjas, Poland
• 1984, gold medal , OS in Los Angeles , F, Ba, with wins over Akgun, Turkey , Brian Aspen, Orlando Caceras, Puerto Rico , Tohtas Singh, India and Barry Davis , USA

literature

• Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 8/1978, 9/1978, 9/1979, 10/1981, 9/1982, 10/1983, 9/1984

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gary Abbott: Kemp inducted into FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame. (No longer available online.) In: TheMat.com. August 22, 2008, archived from the original on September 18, 2012 ; accessed on February 1, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Profile of Hideaki Tomiyama at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science
• Hideaki Tomiyama in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Website search.japantimes.co.jp
• Website sports123.com
• Website japanwrestling.jp