Kōsei Akaishi

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Kōsei Akaishi ( Japanese 赤石 光 生 , Akaishi Kōsei ; * February 26, 1965 ) is a former Japanese wrestler . He was the winner of the silver medal at the 1984 Free Style Featherweight Olympics and the bronze medal at the 1992 Free Style Lightweight Olympics.

Career

Akaishi began as a teenager at the high school with the rings and was at Nihon University in Tokyo , trained, which he visited after the upper school at an outstanding freestyle wrestler. It is customary in Japan for the top wrestlers to be sponsored either by universities or by the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.

Akaishi achieved international stature at the age of 16. He proved this by winning the Asian Junior Championships in the weight class up to 60 kg body weight in 1981. In 1984 he was sent by the Japanese Wrestling Association to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . There he fought his way into the final with four wins, which he lost to Randy Lewis from the United States on points. Incidentally, in one of his preliminary round matches he had lost on points against Martin Herbster from the Federal Republic of Germany . This defeat did not have a negative effect on him, however, as he won all of his other preliminary round fights, while Martin Herbster was eliminated early.

In 1985 and 1986 he could not qualify for participation in the World Championships. He lost to Kazuhito Sakae in both years . It was not until 1987 that he was able to qualify again for participation in the World Cup. In Clermont-Ferrand he started in the lightweight for the first time. He lost in his pool final to the outstanding Arsen Fadsajew from the Soviet Union , but got the chance to wrestle for the bronze medal against Andre Metzger from the USA as second in the pool . But he also lost this fight on points and had to be satisfied with 4th place.

Akaishi also achieved the thankless 4th place at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul . He lost the fight for the bronze medal in the lightweight again against an American, Nate Carr .

At the 1989 World Cup in Martigny / Switzerland he was more successful again. He reached the final in the lightweight, but was defeated by the Soviet athlete Boris Budajew and became vice world champion. In 1990 in Tokyo and 1991 in Varna , he won no medals at the world championships. In his native Tokyo he fought against the Cuban Rodriguez for the bronze medal again, but lost. In Varna he lost in the first round against the German champion Georg Schwabenland with 0: 1 points and only reached 8th place.

At the end of his very successful career, Akaishi then won another Olympic medal, the bronze, at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona . Arsen Fadzayev once again blocked the path to the gold medal. In the battle for the bronze medal, he defeated the Iranian Ali Akbar Nejad on points.

Akaishi also took part in the Asian Games and Asian Championships four times. The best results he achieved in 1986 and 1989 in each case second places in the lightweight.

Akaishi finished his international wrestling career in 1993 and completed a sports degree. Since 1995 he has been the coach of the Japanese national wrestling team. It is particularly noteworthy that in 2002 and 2004 in Afghanistan he prepared the wrestlers there, who have only been able to play their sport again since the end of the Taliban government, in stays of several weeks in Kabul for the Asian Games in Busan and the Olympic Games in Athens .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight, back then up to 62 kg or 68 kg body weight)

  • 1981, 1st place , Junior Asian Championship (Juniors = up to the age of 18) in Hissar-Harjana / India , F, up to 60 kg body weight, ahead of Gian Singh, India, Morteza Hussein Zadeh, Iran a . Kazim Mudari, Iraq ;
  • 1986, 2nd place , Asian Games in Seoul , F, Le behind Kim Soo-Hwan, South Korea a. before Ali Akbar Nejad , Iran, Satywan, India a. Ren Qin, China ;
  • 1989, 2nd place , Asian Championship in Aarai Ibaraki / Japan, F, Le, behind Chenmedechiin Amaraa , Mongolia a . in front of Park Jang-Soon, Satywan u. Ali Akbar Fallah, Iran;
  • 1990, 5th place , Asian Games in Beijing , F, Le, behind Park Jong-Soon, Rasul Khadem Azghadi, Iran, Yang Zhigang, China a. Li Myong Bok, North Korea ;
  • 1992, 4th place , Asian Championship in Tehran , F, Le, behind Hwang Sang-Ho, South Korea, Ali Akbar Fallah u. Ahmad Al-Osta, Syria a . before Yang Zhigang;
  • 1992, bronze medal , OS in Barcelona , F, Le, behind Arsen Fadsajew u. Valentin Getzow u. before Ali Akbar Nejad, Fatih Özbas , Turkey a. Yung Ho-Ko, South Korea;

swell

  • Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 9/1984, page 13, 9/1987, page 10, 10/1988, pages 10 to 12, 9/1989, page 10, 10/1990, page 4, 10/1991, page 10 and . 9/1992, page 15
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
  • Japanwrestling website

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personal data
SURNAME Akaishi, Kōsei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 赤石 光 生 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1965