Nanami Irie

Nanami Irie medal table
Wrestler
Japan
World Championship
silver	2019 Nur-Sultan	up to 55 kg
Asian Championship
bronze	2015 Doha	up to 53 kg
Junior World Championship
gold	2012 Baku	up to 49 kg cadets
bronze	2014 Zagreb	up to 55 kg Juniors
gold	2015 Salvador da Bahia	up to 55 kg Juniors
Asian Junior Championship
gold	2010 Bangkok	up to 49 kg cadets
gold	2011 Bangkok	up to 49 kg cadets

Nanami Irie ( Japanese 入 江 な な み Irie Nanami ; born January 8, 1995 in Fukuoka Prefecture ) is a Japanese wrestler . In 2019 she became vice world champion in the weight class up to 55 kg body weight.

Career

Nanami Irie is the younger sister of Yuki Irie , who is also a world class wrestler. Like them, she started wrestling at kindergarten age. She attended Ogura Shogyo High School Fukuoka and then studied at Kyushu Kyoritsu University Kitakyushu. She is mainly trained by Keiji Fukuda. Nanami Irie is 1.53 meters tall and weighs around 55 kg. She starts for the Fukui Pref. Sports Assoc.

Since 2010 Nanami Irie has been one of the best Japanese junior wrestlers. In 2010 and 2011 she was Asian Junior Champion (age group Cadets), each in the weight class up to 49 kg. In 2012 she was Junior World Champion (Cadets) in Baku in the weight class up to 49 kg, ahead of Eva Sauer from Germany.

At the age of 17, Nanami Irie took 3rd place in the Japanese championship for women in the weight class up to 51 kg, behind Hikari Sugawara and Yu Miyahara, and won a medal.

In 2013 she was used at the Asian Championships for women in New Delhi in the weight class up to 51 kg, but already lost there in the qualification against Vinesh Vinesh from India with 3: 4 points. Since this did not reach the final, she was eliminated and only came in 8th place. At the Japanese women's championship in December 2013, she won a bronze medal again in the same weight class behind Yu Miyahara and Mayu Mukaida .

In March 2014, Nanami Irie represented the Japanese colors together with Saori Yoshida at the Team World Cup in Tokyo in the weight class up to 53 kg . Japan was the winner of this competition. In June 2014 she lost at the "Meiji" Cup in Tokyo, where the starting positions for the world championship were declared, in the weight class up to 53 kg only in the final against Saori Yoshida on points (2: 8). At the Junior World Championships (age group Juniors) in Zagreb in 2014, she won a bronze medal in the weight class up to 55 kg. At the Japanese Women's Championship in 2014, which was held in December of this year, she came third in the weight class up to 53 kg.

In 2015 Nanami Irie won a bronze medal at the women's Asian championship in Doha in the weight category up to 53 kg, behind Zhong Xuechun from China and Pak Yang-mi from North Korea. In August 2015 she was in Salvador da Bahi Junior World Champion (Juniors) in the weight class up to 55 kg, ahead of Ramona Galambos from Hungary. Shortly before that, she had finished second behind Saori Yoshida at the "Meiji" Cup in Tokyo in the weight class up to 53 kg, and she also came second in the 2015 Japanese championship in the weight class up to 53 kg. In the final, she lost against Eri Tosaka with a tie of 4: 4 only through the last score that Eri Tosaka scored.

In February 2016 started at the Asian Championships in Bangkok in the weight class up to 53 kg. She lost to Pak Yang-mi there and was injured so badly that she was unable to compete in 2016 and 2017.

In February 2018, recovered from her injury, she won the Klippan Lady Cup in the weight class up to 53 kg ahead of Umi Imai, Japan, Sarah Hildebrandt , USA and Natalja Malyschewa from Russia. At the Poland Open 2018 in Warsaw she also won in the weight class up to 53 kg, ahead of Katarzyna Krawczyk , Poland, Maria Prevolaraki , Greece and Nina Hemmer , Germany. In December 2018, she was the Japanese runner-up in the weight class up to 53 kg behind Mayu Mukaida and ahead of Yuka Yago and Umi Imai.

In June 2019 Nanami Irie took 3rd place at the "Meiji" Cup in Tokyo in the weight class up to 53 kg behind Mayu Mukaida and Haruna Okuno . In an additional "playoff" a month later, however, she was able to secure a starting place at the 2019 World Cup in Nur-Sultan with a victory over Haruna Okuna (3: 1) in the weight class up to 55 kg. In Nur-Sultan she won over Jade Mariah Parsons, Canada, Olga Choroschawzewa , Russia and Maria Sednewa , Kazakhstan and was in the final, in which she lost to Jacarra Winchester from the United States just on points (3: 5).

In December 2019, Nanami Irie took 2nd place at the Japanese championship in the weight class up to 53 kg, behind Haruna Okuno, ahead of Umi Imai and Yumi Schimono.

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• WM = World Championship

Web links

• Profile of Nanami Irie at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science
• Report Japanese World Cup elimination 2019
• 2016 Asian Cup report