Mitsuru Satō (wrestler)
Mitsuru Satō ( Japanese佐藤 満, Satō Mitsuru ; * December 21, 1961 ) is a former Japanese wrestler and Olympic champion in 1988 in free style in flyweight.
Career
Mitsuru Satō began wrestling as a teenager in high school. He later attended the Nippon Sport Science University in Tokyo , where he found very good training conditions and coaches. In 1981 he first drew attention to himself on the international wrestling stage when he became the student flyweight world champion in free style in Bucharest .
In 1983 Sato disappointed at the Asian Championship in Tehran when he only came in 4th place. He also failed to qualify for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . He then won his first World Championship medal at the World Championship in Budapest in 1985 , when he finished third behind superstar Valentin Jordanow from Bulgaria and the Soviet athlete Minatulla Daibow .
In 1986 Sato won the flyweight title at the Asian Games in Seoul in front of the Iranian defending champion Yaghoob Najafi Jouybari . In the same year he was also vice world champion in Budapest behind the North Korean Kim Young Sik but before Valentin Jordanow. He also won a medal at the 1987 World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand . He took 3rd place there behind his old rivals Valentin Jordanow and Kim Young Sik.
The 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul were the climax of Mitsuru Satō's career . After Valentin Jordanow had failed in the preliminary round, he succeeded in winning the Olympic gold before the 1984 Olympic champion Šaban Trstena from Yugoslavia and the Soviet athlete Vladimir Toguzov .
1989 and 1990 Satō paused on the international wrestling mat. The comeback, which he tried in 1991, he only succeeded halfway, because he finished 5th at the 1991 World Cup in Varna and came 6th at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , each in flyweight. Since these placements certainly did not meet his requirements, he finally said goodbye to the international wrestling mat after the 1992 Olympic Games.
He became a wrestling coach at his home university.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, Fl = flyweight, back then up to 52 kg body weight)
- 1981, 1st place , Student World Cup (Universiade) in Bucharest , F, Fl, in front of Gheorghe Bircu, Romania , Kim Jong-Kyu, South Korea , Ray Takahashi , Canada u. Bernardo Olvera, Mexico ;
- 1983, 4th place , Asian championship in Teheran , F, Fl, behind Yaghoob Najafi Jouybari, Iran , Kuldeep Singh, India a . Zhang Jianhua, China ;
- 1985, 1st place , World Super Championship (unofficial) in Tokyo , F, Fl, ahead of Šaban Trstena , Yugoslavia a . Filip Mollow, Bulgaria ;
- 1985, 3rd place , World Championship in Budapest , F, Fl, behind Valentin Jordanow , Bulgaria a. Minatulla Daibow , USSR a . before Joe Gonzales , USA , Nauzading Burgedas, Mongolia a . Hartmut Reich , GDR ;
- 1986, 4th place , World-Super-Championship (unofficial) in Tokyo, F, Fl, behind Walentin Jordanow , Minatulla Daibow u. Kazutoshi Kamishima, Japan;
- 1986, 1st place , Asian championship in Seoul , F, Fl, ahead of Yaghoob Najafi Jouybari, Son Gan-Bo, South Korea, Xu Jihua, China u. Kuldeep Singh;
- 1986, 2nd place , World Championships in Budapest , F, Fl, behind Kim Young Sik, North Korea a . in front of Walentin Jordanow , Hartmut Reich, Rho Kyung-Sun, South Korea a. Vladimir Toguzov , USSR;
- 1987, 3rd place , World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand , F, Fl, behind Valentin Jordanow a . Kim Young Sik et al. in front of Vladimir Toguzov, Tserenbataryn Enkhbataar, Mongolia a. Carlos Valera, Cuba ;
- 1988, gold medal , OS in Seoul, F, Fl, before Šaban Trstena , Wladimir Togusow , László Biro , Hungary , Aslan Seyhanlı , Turkey a . Kim Jong-Ok, South Korea;
- 1991, 5th place , World Cup in Varna , F, Fl, behind Zeke Jones , USA, Valentin Jordanow , Wladimir Togusow u. Constantin Corduneanu, Romania a. before Tsenenbataryn Enkhbataar;
- 1992, 6th place , OS in Barcelona , F, Fl, behind Li Hak Sin, North Korea, Zeke Jones , Walentin Jordanow , Kim Sun-Hak, South Korea u. Ahmet Örel, Turkey
literature
- Div. Issues of the trade journal "Der Ringer" from 1981 to 1992,
- International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
Web links
- Profile of Mitsuru Satō at the Institute for Applied Training Science
- Mitsuru Satō in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Satō, Mitsuru |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese wrestler |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1961 |