Ken'ichi Yumoto

Ken'ichi Yumoto ( Japanese 湯 元 健 一 , Yumoto Ken'ichi ; born December 4, 1984 in Wakayama , Wakayama Prefecture ) is a Japanese wrestler . He won a bronze free style featherweight medal at the 2008 Olympics .

Career

Ken'ichi Yumoto began wrestling with his twin brother Shin'ichi Yumoto at the Wakayama Kogyo Sports Club , with both focusing on free style. The coach there was Takumi Adachi. Due to his success in the national youth field, Ken'ichi Yumoto joined the Japanese national team of freestyle wrestlers at the age of 20. His trainers were or are there Masakazu Hijikata, Yu Sugiyama u. Takahira Wada. At the same time he also started studying at Nippon Sport Science University and has been working for its sports club ever since. In the meantime he is also a trainer at this university.

His international wrestling career began in 2001. He started at the Asian Junior Championship (Juniors) in Tehran and came 4th in the bantamweight division.

In 2002, Ken'ichi Yumoto took 1st place in the national school featherweight championship. In 2004 he won his first medal with a 3rd place at the Japanese championship for seniors. In the semifinals he had to admit defeat to Takafumi Kojima. In 2004 he started again at the Asian Junior Championship (Juniors) and won the bronze medal in featherweight behind Mohammed Reza Ashouri from Iran and Talgat Saischenow from Kazakhstan .

After Kenji Inoue , the medalist of the 2004 Featherweight Olympics, had resigned at the beginning of 2005 , Ken'ichi Yumoto got the chance to determine the starter for the 2005 World Cup in an elimination match in Tokyo against Noriyuki Takatsuka . He won this fight and therefore started at the Featherweight World Championship in Budapest . Of course, he still had to learn the hard way, because with a defeat against Yandro Quintana from Cuba , a victory over Tevfik Odabasi from Turkey and a defeat against Ojuunbilegiin Pürewbaatar from Mongolia , he only came in 13th place.

In December 2005 he succeeded with a victory over Noriyuki Takatsuka for the first time to become Japanese champion in the senior featherweight division. In June 2006 he lost to Takatsuka when it came to who should represent Japan at the 2006 World Cup and in January 2007 Ken'ichi Yumoto won the Japanese championship of 2006 (!) Over Kenji Inoue , who had made a comeback , on points and became Japanese champion for the second time. At the 2007 World Cup in Baku , he lost his first fight against Samat Shapukow from Kazakhstan , with which he was eliminated and only finished 22nd.

In December 2007, Ken'ichi Yumoto lost in the final of the Japanese featherweight championship against his rival Noriyuki Takatsuka, which his chances of participating in the Olympics in Beijing were not the best. However, Takatsuka only finished 13th in the featherweight division at the first Olympic qualifying tournament in Martigny / Switzerland . Ken'ichi Yumoto was therefore sent to the start at the second Olympic qualification tournament in Warsaw in 2008 . At this tournament the big international breakthrough came for him, because he won there over Gandsorigiin Mandachnaran from Mongolia , George Bucur from Romania , Andrei Perpeliță from Moldova , Jo Tong Hyok from North Korea and others. Kim Jong-dae from South Korea took 1st place and won the right to start for Japan at the Beijing Games. Before he could start there, however, he had to compete against Noriyuki Takatsuka in the official Japanese Olympic elimination in Tokyo on June 25, 2008 . He won this fight and with it the Japanese starting place in Beijing.

Ken'ichi Yumoto was able to convince in Beijing. He won there over Vitali Korjakin from Tajikistan a . Yogeshwar Dutt from India , but lost in the semifinals to Vasyl Fedoryschyn from Ukraine . But he won an Olympic bronze medal with a victory over Basar Basargurujew from Kyrgyzstan .

His first start after the 2008 Olympic Games was in August 2009 at the National Sports Festival in Niigata . He won there featherweight with a victory in the final over Keiji Matsumoto from Nagasaki . In December 2009 he reached the Japanese featherweight championships behind Hiroyuki Oda and Noriyuki Takatsuka only 3rd place. For this reason, he was not used at the 2009 international championships. In December 2010 he was again Japanese champion before Niriyuki Takatsuka and Oda Hiroyuki. He was then also used at the World Cup this year in Istanbul , where he fought with victories over Vladimir Dubow, Bulgaria and Wassyl Fedoryschyn , Ukraine, a defeat against Bessik Kuduchow , Russia and victories over Wilfredo Henriquez Hernandez, Venezuela and Didier Païs , France , a world championship bronze medal .

In April 2012, he defeated the Japanese champion from 2011 Shogo Maeda in the Japanese Olympic elimination and thus secured the starting place at the Olympic Games in London . In London he won over Yowlys Bonne Rodriguez, Cuba , then lost to Toğrul Əsgərov from Azerbaijan and, since he was Olympic champion , was able to continue in the consolation round. In this he first defeated Tim Schleicher from Germany , but lost the fight for an Olympic bronze medal against Scott Coleman from the United States and came in 5th place.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
2001	4th	Asian Junior Championship (Juniors) in Tehran	Bantam	behind S. Dahia, India , U. Akinbai, Kyrgyzstan u. Kim Chung-il, South Korea
2004	3.	Asian Junior Championship (Juniors) in Almaty	feather	behind Mohammed Reza Ashouri, Iran a . Talgat Saischenow, Kazakhstan
2005	9.	"Yasar Dogu" memorial in Ankara	feather	after losing to Eldar Misimov, Russia
2005	9.	"Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs	feather	after a point victory over Jesse Brock, USA a . one loss to Josh Moore, USA
2005	13.	World Cup in Budapest	feather	after a defeat against Yandro Quintana , Cuba , a victory over Tevfik Odabasi , Turkey a . a loss to Ojuunbilegiin Pürewbaatar , Mongolia
2006	9.	"Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs	feather	with a victory over Drew Headler, USA a. Loss to Mike Zadick , USA a. Wagif Kasiev, Russia
2007	9.	"Yasar Dogu" memorial in Ankara	feather	Winner: Cetin Ersin, Turkey, ahead of Selimchan Chusseinow , Russia a. Kenji Inoue , Japan
2007	22nd	World Cup in Baku	feather	after losing to Samat Shapukov, Kazakhstan
2008	1.	Olympic qualification tournament in Warsaw	feather	with victories over Gandsorigiin Mandachnaran , Mongolia , George Bucur , Romania , Andrei Perpeliță, Moldova , Jo Ton Hyok, North Korea and others. Kim Jong-dae , South Korea
2008	bronze	OS in Beijing	feather	with victories over Vitali Korjakin, Tajikistan a . Yogeshwar Dutt, India , a defeat against Wassyl Fedoryschyn , Ukraine a . a victory over Bazaar Basargurujew , Kyrgyzstan
2010	5.	Dave Schultz Memorial International in Colorado Springs	feather	behind Mike Zadick, Magomed Kuranalijew and Gsdschi Abdullajew, both Russia and Nat Gillik , USA
2011	7th	"Ivan Yarigin" Memorial in Krasnoyarsk	feather	after victories over Shawn Bunch , USA and Noriyuki Takatsuka, Japan and a defeat against Ahmed Tschakajew, Russia
2011	3.	World Cup in Istanbul	feather	after victories over Vladimir Dubow, Bulgaria and Wassyl Fedoryschyn, a defeat against Bessik Kuduchow , Russia and victories over Wilfredo Henriquez Hernandez, Venezuela and Didier Païs , France
2012	2.	World Cup in Baku	feather	behind Scott Coleman , USA, ahead of Haji Aliyev , Azerbaijan and Alexander Bogomojew, Russia
2012	5.	OS in London	feather	after a win over Yowlys Bonne Rodriguez , Cuba, a loss to Toğrul Əsgərov , Azerbaijan, a win over Tim Schleicher , Germany and a loss to Scott Coleman

National successes

year	space	competition	Weight class	Result
2002	1.	Japan. School championship	feather
2004	3.	Japan. championship	feather	after losing to Takafumi Kojima in the semifinals
2005	1.	Japan. World Cup elimination	feather	with a win over Noriyuki Takatsuka
2005	1.	Japan. championship	feather	with a win in the final over Noriyuki Takatsuka
2006	1.	Nation. Sports festival	feather	u. a. with a semi-final victory against Tomohiro Matsunaga
2006	2.	Japan. World Cup elimination	feather	after losing to Noriyuki Takatsuka
2006	1.	Japan. Universities-mostly.	feather	with a win in the final over Noriyuki Takatsuka
2006	1.	Japan. championship	feather	with a point win in the final over Kenji Inoue (2-0 rounds, 8-0 technical points)
2007	2.	Japan. championship	feather	after losing to Noriyuki Takatsuka
2008	1.	Japan. Olympic elimination	feather	with a win over Noriyuki Takatsuka
2009	1.	Nation. Sports festival in Niigata	feather	with a win in the final over Keji Matsumoto, Nagasaki
2009	3.	Japan. championship	feather	behind Hiroyuki Oda and Noriyuki Takatsuka
2010	1.	Japan. championship	feather	before Noriyuki Takatsuka and Oda Hiroyuki
2012	1.	Japan. Olympic elimination	feather	before Shogo Maeda

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship
• Feather weight, weight class up to 60 kg body weight

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• Japanese Wrestling Association website

Web links

• Profile of Ken'ichi Yumoto at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science
• Ken'ichi Yumoto in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )