Noriko Mizoguchi

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Minister Toshiaki Endo and Noriko Mizoguchi (2015)

Noriko Mizoguchi ( Japanese 溝口 紀 子 , Mizoguchi Noriko ; born July 23, 1971 in Iwata , Shizuoka Prefecture ) is a former Japanese judoka . In 1992 she was Olympic runner-up in the half-light weight category, up to 52 kilograms. Then she is a university professor and politician. She taught at the Shizuoka School of Culture and Art from 2005, from 2014 to 2015 she headed the school inspectorate in her home prefecture of Shizuoka, and in 2017 she was the defeated candidate for governor.

Athletic career

The 1.60 m tall Noriko Mizoguchi won the Tournoi de Paris for the first time in 1988 , followed by the second success in 1989. At the Asian Championships in Damascus in 1988, she won a bronze medal. At the 1989 World Championships in Belgrade, she was eliminated in her opening match against the South Korean Cho Min-sun .

At the Olympic premiere of women's judo in Barcelona in 1992 , Mizoguchi won her first two fights by Ippon, in the quarter-finals against the Italian Alessandra Giungi she won by referee decision (yusei-gachi). The semi-final against the Dutchwoman Jessica Gal ended after four minutes through Ippon. In the final, Mizoguchi lost to the Spaniard Almudena Muñoz with a coca rating.

In 1993 Mizoguchi changed the weight class and started now in the lightweight, the weight class up to 56 kilograms. In the next few years she was particularly successful at the World Cup tournament in Paris. She won in 1994 and 1996, in 1995 she was second behind the South Korean Jung Sun-yong . At the 1995 World Championships in Chiba, she was eliminated in the first round against the German Tanja Münzinger .

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Noriko Mizoguchi won her first two fights through Ippon. In the quarterfinals she was defeated by Jung Sun-yong with a coca rating. In the hope round she was eliminated against the Belgian Marisabel Lomba and finished ninth.

From 1997 Mizoguchi worked at the short college (tanki daigaku) ​​of the prefecture-run University of Shizuoka (Shizuoka kenritsu daigaku) . In 2005 she became a lecturer (kōshi) , from 2009 assistant professor (jun-kyōju) , from 2016 professor (kyōju) at the Shizuoka School of Culture and Art (Shizuoka bunka geijutsu daigaku) . At the same time, she was involved in administration and politics: from 2011 to 2016, Mizoguchi was a member of the Shizuoka Prefectural Education Committee, which she chaired from 2014 to 2015. In 2016 she became a technical advisor to the new sports authority ( Sports-chō ; established in 2015 under the national Ministry of Education and Science). In 2017 she ran with the support of the Liberal Democratic Party Shizuoka in the gubernatorial election on June 25 against incumbent Heita Kawakatsu , but lost with around 40% of the vote.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Match balance 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. 425f
  3. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  4. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 760
  5. ↑ Kawakatsu cruises to third term in Shizuoka gubernatorial election. In: The Japan Times . June 26, 2017, accessed February 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mizoguchi, Noriko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 溝口 紀 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese judoka
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Iwata