Maki Tsukada

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Maki Tsukada ( Japanese 塚 田 真 希 Tsukada Maki ; born January 5, 1982 in Shimotsuma ) is a former Japanese judoka . She won an Olympic gold and silver medal, and in 2007 she was world champion.

Career

The 1.70 m tall Maki Tsukada was nine times Japanese champion in the open class and six times heavyweight champion from 2002 to 2010.

Tsukada won the heavyweight title at the Junior World Championships in 2000. In 2001 she reached the finals of the Universiade in Beijing in the heavyweight division, where she was defeated by the Chinese Yuan Hua . In 2002, Tsukada was part of the victorious Japanese team at the World Team Championships. At the Asian Games in Busan she reached the final in the open class and was defeated there by the Chinese Tong Wen . In 2003 the World Championships took place in Osaka. Tsukada defeated the Cuban Daima Beltrán in the semi-finals of the heavyweight division , in the final she was defeated by the Chinese Sun Fuming .

A year later, Tsukada won all fights prematurely through Ippon at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. After the Australian Jessica Malone and the Ukrainian Marina Prokofieva , she defeated the Russian Tea Dongusashvili in the semi-finals , this fight lasted the longest with 4:35 minutes. The final against the Cuban Daima Beltrán lasted 1:50 minutes.

At the 2005 World Championships in Cairo, Tsukada was defeated by the Chinese Tong Wen in the semi-finals, and the Japanese won the battle for the bronze medal against Tea Dongusashvili. In 2006 the Japanese team won the bronze medal at the World Team Championships. In 2007 Maki Tsukada reached the heavyweight final at the World Championships in Rio de Janeiro by defeating Briton Karina Bryant , but then lost in the final against Tong Wen. In the open class she defeated the Russian Jelena Iwaschtschenko in the semifinals , in the final she won the world title against the Slovenian Lucija Polavder .

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, Tsukada defeated the French Anne-Sophie Mondière in the round of 16 , the Mexican Vanessa Zambotti in the quarter-finals and Lucija Polavder in the semi-finals. By then, Maki Tsukada had won all of her seven fights at two Olympic Games. In the final she lost to Tong Wen after 4:52 minutes and received the silver medal.

In 2009 Tong Wen won the quarter-finals of the World Championships in Rotterdam against Tsukada, who won a bronze medal with victories in the hope round over the Ukrainian Marina Prokofieva and the German Franziska Konitz . At the 2010 World Championships in Tokyo , Tong Wen was suspended. Maki Tsukada lost in the semi-finals to the Chinese Qin Qian , in the battle for the bronze medal she won against the Chinese Liu Huanyuan . With the bronze medal at the home world championships, her sixth world championship medal overall, Tsukada's international career ended.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The career balance on judoinside.com shows sixteen titles, but two heavyweight titles in 2006 are listed. Presumably a title was counted twice here.
  2. ↑ The presentation of the results follows the presentation on the results list at judoinside.com
  3. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  4. ↑ Maki Tsukada in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
  5. ↑ In 2010, Tong Wen was retroactively stripped of her gold medal for doping at the 2009 World Championships; in 2011 this sentence was overturned by the Sports Court. Judo champ's doping ban overturned (Associated Press report, February 23, 2011, accessed November 1, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Tsukada, Maki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese judoka
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Shimotsuma