Kazuhito Sakae

Kazuhito Sakae ( Japanese 栄 和 人 , Sakae Kazuhito ; born June 19, 1960 in Amami , Kagoshima Prefecture , Japan) is a former Japanese wrestler and coach of Japanese women's freestyle wrestlers.

Career

Kazuhito Sakae started wrestling as a teenager. He was a member of the Wrestling Club of Shigakkan University . He concentrated on the free style. Only at the Asian Championships in 1983 in Tehran did he also wrestle in the Greco-Roman Til, because there all participating Japanese wrestlers competed in both styles. After his wrestling career, which he ended in 1989, he attended the private Nippon Taiiku Daigaku ("Japanese Sports University", English "Nippon Sports Science University") in Tokyo and was trained there as a trainer. He soon took over the Japanese women's national team and made it the most successful team in the world. Wrestlers like Saori Yoshida , Chiharu Ichō ,He made Kaori Ichō , Hitomi Obara , Ayako Shōda , Kyōko Hamaguchi , Hitomi Sakamoto , Mio Nishimaki , Risako Kawai and many others into Olympic or world champions.

His first start in an international championship completed Kazuhito Sakae at the Junior World Championships 1979 in Ulan-Baatar, where he reached 4th place in the featherweight division. His international senior career began in 1983 at the World Championships in Kiev. With a 4th place he just missed the medal ranks there. In November 1983 he was Asian champion in free style in Tehran and took 2nd place in Greco-Roman style, each in featherweight.

Kazuhito Sakae could not qualify for participation in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Kōsei Akaishi captured this starting place . At the 1985 World Cup in Budapest, Kazuhito Sakae was there again. He came in 5th place in featherweight in Budapest. At the Asian Games in 1986 in Seoul, he came second behind the South Korean Lee Jeong-geung. In the same year he started again at the World Championships in Budapest, again missing the medal ranks in featherweight with 4th place.

In 1987 he won the Featherweight Championship in Clermont-Ferrand with a third place behind John Smith from the United States and Chazar Isajew from the Soviet Union in the senior category.

In 1988 he also started in the free style featherweight at the Olympic Games in Seoul. He lost his first fight there in Pool A against Simeon Schterew from Bulgaria, then defeated Jozsef Orban from Hungary and Theodore Dikanda from Sweden and then lost to Avirmediin Enchee from Mongolia. He was eliminated and finished 6th in Pool A. According to the regulations at that time, only the first 8th places were won. Kazuhito Sakae came with the sixth from pool B on the joint 11th / 12th. Space.

In 1989 Kazuhito Sakae was Asian featherweight champion in Oarai Ibaraki / Japan and came in 5th place at the World Cup that year in Martigny / Switzerland.

International success

year	space	competition	style	Weight class	Results
1979	4th	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Ulan-Bataar	F.	feather	behind Magomedgasan Abuschew , USSR, Simeon Schterew , Bulgaria and Raul Cascaret Fonseca , Cuba
1983	4th	World Cup in Kiev	F.	feather	behind Viktor Alexejew , USSR, Lee Roy Smith, USA and Simeon Schterew
1983	2.	Asian Championship in Tehran	GR	feather	behind Hossein Touranian, Iran, in front of Ashok Kumar, India
1983	1.	Asian Championship in Tehran	F.	feather	before Mohsen Kaveh, Iran and Ashok Kumar
1985	5.	World Cup in Budapest	F.	feather	behind Viktor Alexejew, Avirmediin Enchee, Mongolia, Alben Kumarow, Bulgaria and Jozsef Orban, Hungary
1986	2.	Asian Games in Seoul	F.	feather	behind Lee Jeong-geung, South Korea, in front of Akbar Fallah, Iran and Hohtas Singh, India
1986	4th	World Cup in Budapest	F.	feather	behind Chazar Isajew, USSR, Joe McFarland, USA and Avirmediin Enchee
1987	3.	World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand	F.	feather	behind John Smith, USA and Chazar Isajew, in front of Lee Jeong-geung
1988	11./12.	OS in Seoul	F.	feather	after a loss to Simeon Schterew, victories over Jozsef Orban and Theodorus Dikanda, Sweden and a loss to Avirmediin Enchee
1989	1.	Asian Championship in Oarai Ibaraki / Japan	F.	feather	before Lee Jeong-geung, Taghi Akbar Nejad, Iran and Lee Won-Il, North Korea
1989	5.	World Cup in Martigny	F.	feather	behind John Smith, Gary Bohay , Canada, Karsten Polky , GDR and Kim Seung-Ou, North Korea

Explanations

• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship
• Feather weight, back then up to 62 kg body weight
• F = free style, GR = Greco-Roman style

literature

Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

• Kazuhito Sakae in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile of Kazuhito Sakae at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science