Hideaki Yanagida

Hideaki Yanagida ( Japanese 柳 田 英明 , Yanagida Hideaki ; born January 1, 1947 in Hachirogata , Akita Prefecture ) is a former Japanese wrestler . He became Olympic champion in 1972 and free style bantamweight world champion in 1970 and 1971 .

Career

At the age of 23, Hideaki Yanagida, who is only 1.59 meters tall but very agile and physically strong, climbed the top of the Japanese bantamweight freestyle wrestlers. In the following three years he won four major international championships. Winning the gold medal in Munich in 1972 undoubtedly marked the high point of his career.

In 1970 he won the Asian Games in Bangkok in front of the South Korean An Jae-woon. In the same year he won at the World Championships in Edmonton with seven wins the world title in bantamweight, to which he added another in the same weight class in 1971 in Sofia .

At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , Hideaki Yanagida again needed seven victories to win the gold medal . In doing so, he beat his toughest rival Richard Sanders from the United States safely on points.

In the two world championships in 1970 and 1971 and the Olympic Games in Munich, Hideaki Yanagida played a total of 21 fights, all of which he won. Rarely has a wrestler been as superior in his weight class as he is.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, Ba = bantam weight, back then up to 67 kg body weight)

• 1970, 1st place , Asian Games in Bangkok , F, Ba, ahead of An Jae-woon , South Korea a . Mohamed Sardar, Pakistan ;

• 1970, 1st place , World Cup in Edmonton , F, Ba, with victories over Herbert Singermann, Canada , Bishambar Singh, India , Abdolbagher Jahangar , Iran , Tschimedbadsaryn Damdinscharaw , Mongolia , An Jae-woon, Zbigniew Żedzicki , Poland and others. Jancho Patrikow , Bulgaria ;

• 1971, 1st place , World Cup in Sofia , F, Ba, with victories over B. Müller, Switzerland , Choi Seung Gil, North Korea , Emil Müller , FRG , Megdiin Choilogdordsch , Mongolia, Jorge Ramos , Cuba , Niculae Dumitru, Romania and others. Abdolbagher Jahangar;

• 1972, gold medal , OS in Munich , F, Ba, with victories over Ernst Hack, Austria , Zbigniew Żedzicki, An Jae-woon, Richard Sanders , USA , Iwan Schawow , Bulgaria, Ramezan Kheder, Iran a. Prem Nath , India

swell

• Trade journal athletics,
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of FILA, 1976, pages O-88, W-91 u. W-96,
• Intern. Ringer database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Profile of Hideaki Yanagida at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Hideaki Yanagida in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )