Mayu Hamada

Mayu Hamada
Personal information
Nationality:	Japan
Birthday:	January 31, 1994

Mayu Hamada ( Japanese 濱 田 真 由 , Hamada Mayu ; born January 31, 1994 in Saga Prefecture ) is a Japanese Taekwondoin . It starts in the weight class up to 57 kilograms.

Hamada trains under Tsuyoshi Koga in Kurume . She played her first international title fights at the Junior Asian Championships in Kisch , where she won bronze in the class up to 49 kilograms. In the following year she also fought for bronze at the Junior World Championship in Tijuana . Hamada made his adult debut at the 2011 World Cup in Gyeongju . However, she retired early in the class up to 53 kilograms against Caroline Fisher . At the Asian Championships in Ho Chi Minh City in 2012 , she was able to win bronze and thus her first international medal in the adult category by entering the semi-finals. In the class up to 57 kilograms, Hamada won the decisive battle for third place at the Asian Olympic qualification tournament in Bangkok and qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London . There she lost to Marlène Harnois in the battle for the bronze medal and finished fifth.

At the 2013 World Championships in Puebla, Mexico, she only lost to South Korean Kim So-hee in the final . She finished second at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon , South Korea. She lost to South Korean Lee Ahreum in the final . At the next World Championships in Chelyabinsk , Russia , she won the gold medal against Spanish Eva Calvo .

Web links

• Mayu Hamada on the TaekwondoData.com website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Japanese Olympic Committee : Olympian London 2012, Hamada Mayu
2. ↑ TAE KWON DO / Hamada youngest Japanese Olympian in tae kwon do. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 26, 2012 ; accessed on June 22, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.