Noriko Narazaki

Noriko Narazaki ( Japanese 楢 崎 教 子 Narazaki Noriko ; * as Noriko Sugawara September 27, 1972 in Yamato , Kanagawa Prefecture ) is a former Japanese judoka . She won two Olympic medals and was world champion in 1999.

Career

The 1.57 m tall Noriko Sugawara won the silver medal in the half-lightweight division at the Junior World Championships in 1990. In 1994 she competed at the Asian Games in 1994 in the lightweight and won the silver medal behind the South Korean Jung Sun-yong . Two months later, the student from Tsukuba University won the title at the Student World Championships . From 1995 Sugawara fought again at half light weight. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, she lost to the Cuban Legna Verdecia in the quarter-finals , and Sugawara secured a bronze medal with victories in the hope round over the German Alexa von Schwichow , the Argentine Carolina Mariani and the Polish Ewa-Larysa Krause .

After their marriage, she fought as Noriko Narazaki at the 1999 World Championships in Birmingham . With victories over the Algerian Salima Souakri and the Cuban Verdecia in the final, Narazaki won the world championship. In her second Olympic participation in Sydney in 2000 , she defeated Salima Souakri in the quarter-finals. After beating the Chinese Liu Yuxiang in the semi-final , she met Legna Verdecia again in the final and lost to Ippon after 2:19 minutes.

Web links

• Noriko Narazaki in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Tournament results at judoinside.com

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. 760
3. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com