Miku Tashiro
Miku Tashiro ( Japanese 田 代 未来 ; * April 7, 1994 in Hachiōji ) is a Japanese judoka . She won two silver and two bronze medals at world championships in the light middleweight division until 2019.
Life
The 1.63 m tall Miku Tashiro fights in the light middleweight division, the weight class up to 63 kilograms. In 2009 she was U17 world champion, in 2010 she won the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore and two months later at the U20 World Championships. In 2011 and 2012 she was barely active after an injury.
In 2013 she won the East Asian Games, at the end of 2013 she reached the final at the Grand Slam tournament in Tokyo, but then lost to her compatriot Kana Abe . In 2014 she competed at the World Championships in Chelyabinsk . In the quarterfinals she defeated the German Martyna Trajdos and in the semifinals she lost to Yarden Gerbi from Israel. With a victory over the French Edwige Gwend , Tashiro secured a bronze medal. In 2015 she won the Japanese Championships for the first time. At the World Championships in Astana , she lost in the quarterfinals against the French Clarisse Agbegnenou . With a victory over the Dutch Anicka van Emden , she reached the battle for bronze, which she won without a fight against the second Dutch woman Juul Franssen . At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Tashiro defeated Kathrin Unterwurzacher from Austria in the quarter-finals . After her semi-final defeat against Clarisse Agbegnenou, she also lost the battle for bronze against Yarden Gerbi.
At the end of 2017, Miku Tashiro won her first Grand Slam tournament in Tokyo with a final victory over her compatriot Nami Nabekura . In 2018 at the World Championships in Baku , she defeated Juul Franssen in the quarter-finals and the Slovenian Tina Trstenjak in the semifinals . In the final she lost to Clarisse Agbegnenou. In 2019 she won the Grand Slam tournament in Düsseldorf against the Russian Daria Dawydowa , the Japanese championships against Nami Nabekura and the Grand Slam tournament in Baku against Tina Trstenjak. At the World Championships in Baku she won in the quarter-finals against the Dutchwoman Sanne Vermeer and in the semifinals against Tina Trstenjak, in the final she lost to Clarisse Agbegnenou as in the previous year.
Web links
- Miku Tashiro in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Tournament results at judoinside.com
Footnotes
- ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
- ↑ Japanese Championships 2019 at judoinside.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tashiro, Miku |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 田 代 未来 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese judoka |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1994 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hachiōji |