Hitomi Obara

Hitomi Obara

Hitomi Obara medal table
Wrestler
Japan
Olympic games
gold	2012 London	up to 48 kg
World Championship
gold	2000 Sofia	up to 51 kg
gold	2001 Sofia	up to 51 kg
gold	2005 Budapest	up to 51 kg
gold	2006 Guangzhou	up to 51 kg
gold	2007 Baku	up to 51 kg
gold	2008 Tokyo	up to 51 kg
gold	2010 Moscow	up to 48 kg
gold	2011 Istanbul	up to 48 kg
Asian Games
bronze	2010 Guangzhou	up to 48 kg
Asian Championships
gold	2000 Seoul	up to 51 kg
gold	2005 Wuhan	up to 51 kg

Hitomi Obara ( Japanese 小 原 日 登 美 , Obara Hitomi ; born Sakamoto (Japanese 坂 本 日 登 美 ); born January 4, 1981 in Hachinohe ) is a Japanese wrestler . Between 2001 and 2011 she won the world title eight times in the class up to 51 kg body weight and gold in the class up to 48 kg at the 2012 Olympic Games in London .

Career

Hitomi Obara struggling since 1989. She is captain of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces and starts for the jieitai Taiiku Gakko ( Japanese for the "Sports School of Self-Defense Forces ," English Japan Self Defense Forces Physical Training School ) in Nerima ( Tokyo ). Your coach has been Kenji Fujikawa since 2002 , who is supported by national coach Kazuhito Sakae . She married in September 2011 and took the surname Obara.

As a junior, Hitomi Obara did not appear at the international championships. She made her first start at an international championship in 2000, when she was Asian champion ahead of Yin Min, China and Chang in the weight class up to 51 kg, the weight class in which she competed until 2008 in Seoul Wen-Hsia, Taiwan . In the same year she started for the first time at the World Championships in Sofia , where she won her first world title ahead of Patricia Miranda from the United States and Ida Hellström from Sweden .

In 2001 she became world champion again in Sofia. She defeated Ida Hellström, Alena Iwanowna Kareicha, Belarus , Vanessa Boubryemm , France , Gao Yanzhi , China and Stephanie Murata from the United States.

In 2002 and 2003 Hitomi Obara could not take part in international championships because she was replaced in Japan by Chiharu Icho as No. 1 in her weight class. In 2004 she did not succeed in qualifying for the Olympic Games in Athens . She had to train in the weight class up to 48 kg because the weight class up to 51 kg was not Olympic. Chiharu Icho did the same and defeated Obara in the Japanese Olympic elimination.

After the 2004 Olympic Games, Chiharu Icho stayed in the 48 kg weight class. Hitomi Obara was therefore able to start again in the weight class up to 51 kg at the international championships. In 2005 she became Asian champion again in Wuhan and she won her third world title in Budapest . In the final, she defeated Vanessa Boubryemm from France.

In 2006, 2007 and 2008 she repeated her victories at the world championships in the weight class up to 51 kg. In 2006 she won in Guangzhou in front of Lyndsay Belisle from Canada, in 2007 in Baku in front of Ren Xuecheng from China and in 2008 in Tokyo in front of Marjana Markowitsch from Belarus . For the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , she could not qualify again in the weight class up to 48 kg. It failed again because of Chiharu Icho.

After a year break (2009) and after Chiharu Icho's resignation in 2008, Hitomi Obara has been starting in the weight class up to 48 kg since 2010. In this weight class she then won her seventh world title at the 2010 World Cup in Moscow . In the decisive fights she defeated the 2008 Olympic champion Carol Huynh from Canada ; she had defeated Chiharu Icho, Iwona Matkowska from Poland and Lorissa Oorsak from Russia in the final.

In 2011 Hitomi Obara relegated the junior world champion Eri Tosaka to 2nd place at the Japanese championship and won the world championship in Istanbul with victories over Lenka Matejewa, Slovakia , Henriette Slattum, Norway , Carol Huynh, Zhao Shasha , China, and Maria Stadnik , Azerbaijan , the eighth world title. Against Maria Stadnik she won 2: 1 rounds (2: 3, 1: 0, 1: 0 points).

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , she deservedly won the gold medal in the up to 48 kg class for the first time in her long career . On the way to this medal, she defeated Maroi Mezien from Tunisia , Isabella Sambou from Senegal , Carol Huynh and Maria Stadnik.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2000	1.	Asian Championship in Seoul	up to 51 kg	before Yin Min, China and Chang Wen-Hsia, Taiwan
2000	1.	World Cup in Sofia	up to 51 kg	before Patricia Miranda , USA and Ida Hellström , Sweden
2001	1.	East Asia Games in Osaka	up to 51 kg	in front of Park Ji-young, South Korea and Gao Yanzhi , China
2001	1.	World Cup in Levallois-Perret	up to 51 kg	before Gao Yanzhi and Jelena Tolzenko, Russia
2001	1.	World Cup in Sofia	up to 51 kg	after victories over Ida Hellström, Alena Iwanowna Kareichoa, Belarus , Vanessa Boubryemm , France , Gao Yanzhi and Stephanie Murata , USA
2004	1.	Canada Cup in Guelph	up to 51 kg	before Lyndsay Belisle and Sarah White, both Canada
2004	1.	World Cup in Tokyo	up to 51 kg	before Stephanie Murata, Erica Sharp , Canada and Tan Dongmei, China
2005	1.	"Ivan Yarigin" Memorial in Krasnoyarsk	up to 51 kg	before Juragiin Gandolgor , Mongolia, Brigitte Wagner , Germany and Natalja Iljina, Russia
2005	1.	Asian Championships in Wuhan	up to 51 kg	before Dinara Mirzajewa, Uzbekistan and Tsogtbadsaryn Enchjargal , Mongolia
2005	1.	World Cup in Budapest	up to 51 kg	after victories over Livanis Rivera Perez, Puerto Rico , Dinara Mirzajewa, Wen Juling, China, Erica Sharp and Vanessa Boubryemm
2006	2.	World Cup in Nagoya	up to 51 kg	behind Ren Xuecheng , China, in front of Patricia Miranda and Oleksandra Kohut , Ukraine
2006	1.	World Cup in Guangzhou	up to 51 kg	after victories over Bekzat Mustafina, Kazakhstan , Patricia Miranda, Oleksandra Kohut and Lyndsay Belisle , Canada
2007	1.	World Cup in Baku	up to 51 kg	after victories over Maria del Mar Serrano Barcelo, Spain , Erica Sharp, Tatjana Bakatschuk, Kazakhstan and Ren Xuecheng
2008	1.	World Cup in Tokyo	up to 51 kg	after victories over Jessica MacDonald , Canada, Helen Maroulis , USA, Vanessa Boubryemm and Marjana Markewitsch , Belarus
2010	1.	World Cup in Moscow	up to 48 kg	after victories over Ingrid Medrano Cuellar, ESA, Kristina Daranuza, Ukraine, Carol Huynh , Canada, Iwona Matkowska , Poland and Lorissa Oorsak , Russia
2010	3.	Asia Games in Guangzhou	up to 48 kg	behind So Sim-Hyang, North Korea and Nguyen Thi Lua, Vietnam
2011	2.	World Cup in Liévin	up to 48 kg	behind Yildiz Eschimowa, Kazakhstan, in front of Li Xiaomei, China and Tschuluunbaataryn Gantschimeg , Mongolia
2011	1.	World Cup in Istanbul	up to 48 kg	after victories over Lenka Matejewa, Slovakia , Henriette Slattum, Norway , Carol Huynh, Zhao Shasha , China and Maria Stadnik , Azerbaijan
2012	1.	World Cup in Tokyo	up to 48 kg	before Li Hui, China, Angela Dorogan, Azerbaijan and Lyubow Salnikowa , Russia
2012	gold	Olympic Games in London	up to 48 kg	after victories over Maroi Mezien , Tunisia , Isabella Sambou , Senegal , Carol Huynh , and Maria Stadnik

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship

literature

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Website www.japan-wrestling.jp

Web links

• Profile of Hitomi Obara at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Hitomi Obara in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Hitomi Obara at the IOC
• Hitomi Obara wins wrestler gold
• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: 女子 2 選手 （体校） が 快 挙 、 世界 レ ス リ ン グ ・ 坂 本 が 金 ) small profile (Japanese), in Asaguma Shimbunsha, September 16, 2010
• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Official website of the Jieitai Taiiku Gakkō, the sports school of the self-defense forces ) (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ministry of Defense , Jieitai Taiiku Gakkō, athlete pages : Sakamoto Hitomi ( memento of the original from August 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.