Mayu Mukaida

Mayu Mukaida medal table
Wrestler
Japan
World Championship
gold	2016 Budapest	up to 55 kg
silver	2017 Paris	up to 53 kg
gold	2018 Budapest	up to 55 kg
silver	2019 Nur-Sultan	up to 53 kg
Asian Championship
gold	2017 New Delhi	up to 53 kg
silver	2019 Xi'an, China	up to 53 kg
Junior World Championships
gold	2012 Baku	up to 52 kg cadets
gold	2013 Zrenjanin	up to 52 kg cadets
gold	2016 Macon	up to 55 kg Juniors
Youth Olympic Games
gold	2014 Nanjing	up to 52 kg

Mayu Mukaida ( Japanese 向 田 真 優 , Mukaida Mayu ; born June 22, 1997 in Yokkaichi , Mie Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese wrestler .

Career

Mayu Mukaida started out with karate as a child , but soon switched to wrestling and became a member of the Yokkaichi Junior Wrestling Club . As a highly talented wrestler, she achieved excellent results even as a junior. It was therefore delegated by the Japanese Wrestling Association to the Japanese Olympias Committee's Elite Academy in Tokyo .

After several Japanese championship titles in the junior classes and in university wrestling, she became Japanese vice-champion in 2013 for women in the weight class up to 51 kg behind Yu Miyahara. After a 4th place in 2014 and a 3rd place in 2015 at the Japanese championship, she became the first Japanese champion in 2016 ahead of Yu Miyahara . She achieved these successes in the weight class up to 53 kg body weight.

At the international level, she was Junior World Champion in the age group of cadets in the weight class up to 52 kg in 2012 and 2013. In 2014 she also won the Youth Olympics in Nanjing in the same weight class. In January 2015, Mayu Mukaida passed her baptism of fire in international women's wrestling. At the "Ivan Yarigin" Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk in the weight class up to 53 kg she took an excellent 2nd place. In July 2015 she became Asian Junior Champion (weight class up to 55 kg) and in August 2016 Junior World Champion in the same weight class.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Japanese Wrestling Association relied on the tried and tested forces Saori Yoshida (up to 53 kg) and Kaori Icho (up to 58 kg). In December 2016, Mayu Mukaida was sent to Budapest in the non-Olympic weight class up to 55 kg. There she won her first women's world title with victories over Sarah Hildebrandt, USA, Ramona Galambos, Hungary, Aiym Abdildina, Kazakhstan and Irina Ologonowa , Russia.

In June 2017 Mayu Mukaida qualified at the Meji Cup in Tokyo in the weight class up to 53 kg with a tournament victory in front of Yu Miyahara , Yuri Yonamine and Yuka Yago for the upcoming World Championship. At the 2017 World Cup in Paris, she had a difficult draw. She defeated Pak Yong-mi from North Korea, Irina Husjak from Ukraine, Stalwira Orschusch from Russia and Roksana Zasina from Poland one after the other . In the final, she was defeated by Belarusian Vanessa Kaladschinskaja by just a few points and was "only" vice world champion. At the Japanese championship, which took place in December of that year, she won the title in the weight class up to 55 kg in front of Saki Igarashi, Arisa Tanaka and Momoka Kadoya.

In March 2018, Mayu Mukaida was part of the Japanese team at the Team World Cup in Takasaki, which beat China 6: 4 in the final. She herself defeated her Chinese opponent Xie Mengyu in the weight class up to 55 kg.

Mayu Mukaida qualified for participation in the 2018 World Cup by winning the Meiji Cup in Tokyo in June 2018. This cup is a challenge tournament, to which the four best placed wrestlers from the Japanese championship of the previous year are invited. She won there ahead of Saki Igarashi. A little later she also won the China Open in Wenzhou in the weight class up to 55 kg ahead of Zhang Qi from China. At the World Championships in Budapest in October 2018, she was well prepared and was in her weight class with victories over Lenka Hockova Martinkova, Czech Republic, Jong Myong Suk , North Korea, Sofia Mattsson , Sweden, against whom she was barely 6-4 techn. Points won, Zhang Qi and Salina Sidakowa , Belarus, who they defeated prematurely in the final (12: 2 technical points), after 2016 world champion for the second time.

At the 2019 Asian Cup in Xi'an, China, Mayu Mukaida suffered a 3: 4 point defeat in the final against the North Korean Pak Yong-Mi . In June 2019, Mayu Mukaida won the final of the Meiji Cup in Tokyo, which was decisive for the nomination for the world championships of this year, in the weight class up to 53 kg, over the reigning world champion in this weight class, Haruna Okuno, with 2: 1 points. At this year's World Cup in Nur-Sultan, she met the North Korean Pak Yong-Mi in the final, against whom she again lost on points.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2012	1.	Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Baku	up to 52 kg	in front of Luisa Niemesch , Germany
2013	1.	Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Zrenjanin	up to 52 kg	in front of Luisa Suleymanova, Russia
2014	1.	Asian Junior Championship (Cadets) in Bangkok	up to 52 kg	in front of Xie Ya, China
2014	1.	Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing	up to 52 kg	before Leila Gurbanowa, Azerbaijan, Olena Kremser , Ukraine and Habiba Tarek Fathi Attia Ismail, Egypt
2015	2.	"Ivan Yarigin" Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk	up to 53 kg	behind Olga Choroschawzewa, Russia, in front of Nadezhda Schuschko, Belarus and Otgontsetseg Davaasuch , Mongolia
2015	1.	Klippan Lady Open in Klippan / Sweden	up to 53 kg	in front of Pang Qianyu, China, Jekaterina Krasnowa, Russia and Katarzyna Krawczyk , Poland
2015	1.	Asian Junior Championship (Juniors)	up to 55 kg	in front of Marina Sednewa, Kazakhstan, Yan Nam, China and Mu Tsu-Min, Taiwan
2015	7th	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 53 kg	Winner: Helen Maroulis , USA ahead of Sofia Mattsson , Sweden
2016	2.	Klippan Lady Open in Klippan	up to 53 kg	behind Sofia Mattsson, in front of Irina Ologonowa, Russia and Katarzyna Krawczyk
2016	1.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Macon	up to 55 kg	in front of Marina Sednewa, Ramona Galambos, Hungary and Olena Kremser
2016	1.	World Cup in Budapest	up to 55 kg	after victories over Sarah Hildebrandt, USA, Ramona Galambos, Aiym Abdildina, Kazakhstan and Irina Ologonowa
2017	1.	"Ivan Yarigin" Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk	up to 53 kg	before Otgontsetseg Davaasuch and Sumiya Erdenechimeg, both Mongolia and Jekaterina Poleschtschuk, Russia
2017	1.	Asian Championship in New Delhi	up to 53 kg	in front of Jildiz Eschimowa, Kazakhstan, Kim Hyung-joo, South Korea and Jong Myong-Suk, North Korea
2017	2.	World Cup in Paris	up to 53 kg	after victories over Pak Yongmi, North Korea, Irina Husjak, Ukraine, Stalwira Orschusch, Russia and Roksana Zasina, Poland and a defeat against Vanessa Kaladschinskaja , Belarus
2018	1.	China Open in Wenzhou	up to 55 kg	ahead of Zhang Qi, China, Ramona Galambos, Hungary and Junling Quyang, China
2018	1.	World Cup in Budapest	up to 55 kg	after victories over Lenka Hockova Martinkova, Czech Republic, Jong Myong-Suk, North Korea, Sofia Mattsson, Sweden, Zhang Qi, China and Salina Sidakowa, Belarus
2019	2.	Asian Championship in Xi'an, China	up to 53 kg	after victories over Chiu Jo-Cih, Taiwan, Vinesh Vinesh, India and Pang Qianyu, China and a defeat against Pak Yong-Mi, North Korea
2019	2.	World Cup in Nur-Sultan	up to 53 kg	after victories over Julija Blahinja, Ukraine, Vinesh Vinesh, India, Sarah Hildebrandt, USA and Maria Prevolaraki, Greece and a defeat against Pak Yong-Mi

National championships or tournaments

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2013	2.	Japanese championship	up to 51 kg	behind Yu Miyahara , in front of Nanami Irie and Hikari Sugawara
2014	4th	Japanese championship	up to 53 kg	behind Saori Yoshida , Chiho Hamada and Nanami Irie
2015	3.	Japanese championship	up to 53 kg	behind Eri Tosaka and Nanami Irie
2016	1.	Japanese championship	up to 53 kg	before Yu Miyahara
2017	1.	Japanese championship	up to 55 kg	before Saki Igarashi, Arisa Tanaka and Momoka Kadoya
2018	1.	Meiji Cup in Tokyo	up to 55 kg	before Saki Igarashi , Sena Nagamoto and Umi Imai
2018	1.	Japanese championship	up to 53 kg	before Nanami Irie and Yuka Yago
2019	1.	Meiji Cup in Tokyo	up to 53 kg	before Haruna Okuno , Ibuki Tamuri, Nanami Irie and Miho Igarashi

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• WM = World Championship
• the Meiji Cup is not the Japanese championship that takes place every December. The Meiji Cup is an invitation-only tournament that always takes place in June of each year and to which the four best-placed wrestlers from the Japanese championship of the previous year are invited. The winner of the Meiji Cup then usually represents the Japanese colors at the World Cup or, if necessary, at the Olympic Games.

literature

• Trade journal of wrestlers

Web links

• Profile of Mayu Mukaida at the Institute for Applied Training Science