Hidehiko Yoshida

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Hidehiko Yoshida (2013)

Hidehiko Yoshida ( Japanese 吉田 秀 彦 , Yoshida Hidehiko ; born September 3, 1969 in Ōbu , Aichi Prefecture ) is a former Japanese judoka . He was Olympic champion in 1992 and world champion in 1999.

Career

The 1.80 meter tall Hidehiko Yoshida began his career in light middleweight, the weight class up to 78 kilograms. In 1988 he won the title at the Asian Championships in Damascus in this weight class. In the same year he also won the University World Championships in Tbilisi. He won this title for the second time two years later in Brussels. In July 1991, Yoshida won the bronze medal at the 1991 Judo World Championships in Barcelona. After winning his first World Cup tournament in Sofia in February 1992, he started again in Barcelona in July 1992. At the 1992 Olympic Games , he needed twenty-five seconds for his first two fights against a Sudanese and a Lebanese. After victories against the Argentine Dario García Aguilar and the Romanian Alexandru Ciupe , he defeated the Belgian Johan Laats in the fight for the final . After his sixth victory by Ippon over the American Jason Morris , Yoshida received the gold medal. In total, he had needed 16 minutes and 21 seconds for his six fights. In 1993 he won the World Cup tournament in Paris in the weight class up to 86 kilograms. For the Judo World Championships in 1993 in Hamilton, Canada, he returned to the weight class up to 78 kilograms. In the final he was defeated by the South Korean Jeon Ki-young .

From 1994 to 1997 Yoshida competed in the middleweight division, the weight class up to 86 kilograms. In 1995 he won again at the World Cup tournament in Paris. At the Judo World Championships in 1995 in Chiba, he was defeated in the final against Jeon Ki-young, who had also changed weight class. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Yoshida lost his first fight against Romanian Adrian Croitoru . In the hope round, Yoshida won three times, in the battle for the bronze medal he lost to the German Marko Spittka . The Korean Jeon Ki-young became Olympic champion.

After the Olympic Games in 1996, the weight classes in judo were changed, Yoshida continued to start in the middleweight division from 1998 to 2000, but this was now the weight class up to 90 kilograms. His greatest success was the victory at the Judo World Championships in 1999 , where he defeated the Moldovan Victor Florescu in the final. At his last Olympic participation in Sydney in 2000 , Yoshida lost in his third fight against the Brazilian Carlos Honorato .

After his judo career, Yoshida competed as a mixed martial arts fighter from 2002 to 2010 . Of his eighteen fights he won nine and one fight ended in a draw.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 – Atlanta 1996 pp. 422/423 and pp. 610/611 note 304
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 – Atlanta 1996 pp. 756/757
  3. Jump up ↑ Mixed Martial Arts Careers on sherdog.com
personal data
SURNAME Yoshida, Hidehiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 吉田 秀 彦 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese judoka
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Ōbu , Aichi Prefecture