Noriko Anno

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Noriko Anno ( Japanese 阿 武 教 子 Anno Noriko ; born May 23, 1976 in Fukue , Yamaguchi Prefecture ) is a former Japanese judoka . She won an Olympic gold medal and four world titles.

Career

The 1.62 m tall Noriko Anno initially competed in the heavyweight division. In 1992 Anno was second in the Junior World Championships behind the Chinese Yuan Hua . She achieved her first major success in the adult class at the World Championships in 1993 when she won the silver medal behind the German Johanna Hagn . At the Asian Games in 1994 Kaori Suzuki competed for Japan in the heavyweight division. Noriko Anno started in the open class and won the title by beating the Chinese Qiao Yanmin in the final . In 1995, the Meiji University student won the open class title at the Universiade in Fukuoka. A month later she finished fifth at the World Championships in Chiba in both heavyweight and open class. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, she lost in the first round against the Brazilian Edinanci da Silva by Ippon after 3:25 minutes.

After the end of Yōko Tanabe's career , Noriko Anno switched to light heavyweight in 1997. At the World Championships in Paris , she won her first world title by beating the Cuban Diadenis Luna in the final. Two years later Anno defended her title at the World Championships in Birmingham by beating the Chinese Yin Yufeng in the final . Also in her second Olympic participation in Sydney in 2000 , Noriko Anno was eliminated in her first fight when she lost to the Italian Emanuela Pierantozzi due to a passivity penalty.

At the beginning of 2001, Anno was defeated by the Belgian Heidi Rakels and the German Jenny Karl at the master’s tournament in Munich and finished in seventh place. At the 2001 World Championships , which were also held in Munich at the end of July , she won her third title in a row after 1997 and 1999 by beating the Cuban Yurisel Laborde in the final . Two years later she won again at the 2003 World Championships in Osaka and again Laborde was her final opponent. At the end of her career, Anno won her opening match against Keivi Pinto from Venezuela through Ippon at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens . In the quarter-finals against the Italian Lucia Morico she had to go the full time, the semi-final against the French Celine Lebrun won Anno only in extra time. In the final against the Chinese Liu Xia , Anno won after 4:38 minutes through Ippon.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Asian Games 1994 at judoinside.com
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 762
  3. ↑ In the match balance at judoinside.com a quarter-final defeat against the Hungarian Anna Lámfalusy is shown, obviously a mistake, because the world championship title is undisputed.
  4. ↑ Noriko Anno in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data
SURNAME Anno, Noriko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese judoka
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Fukue , Yamaguchi Prefecture