Saori Yoshida
Saori Yoshida ( Japanese 吉田 沙 保 里 , Yoshida Saori ; born October 5, 1982 in Ichishi , Mie Prefecture (today: Tsu )) is a Japanese wrestler . Her greatest successes so far are her Olympic victories in 2004 , 2008 and 2012 in free style in the weight class up to 55 kg (lightweight). In 2016 she won the silver medal in the weight class up to 53 kg at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Career
| Saori Yoshida medal table |
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 Saori Yoshida (right) in a fight against Tina George in 2003 |
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| Olympic Summer Games | ||
| gold | 2004 Athens | lightweight |
| gold | 2008 Beijing | lightweight |
| gold | 2012 London | lightweight |
| silver | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | up to 53 kg |
| World Championship | ||
| gold | 2002 Chalkida | lightweight |
| gold | 2003 New York | lightweight |
| gold | 2005 Budapest | lightweight |
| gold | 2006 Guangzhou | lightweight |
| gold | 2007 Baku | lightweight |
| gold | 2008 Tokyo | lightweight |
| gold | 2009 Herning | lightweight |
| gold | 2010 Moscow | lightweight |
| gold | 2011 Istanbul | lightweight |
| gold | 2012 Strathcona County | lightweight |
| gold | 2013 Budapest | lightweight |
| gold | 2014 Tashkent | up to 53 kg |
| gold | 2015 Las Vegas | up to 53 kg |
Beginnings
Saori Yoshida comes from a family of wrestlers. Her father Eikatsu Yoshida was Japanese wrestling champion in 1973. He was also her first coach when she started playing wrestling as a four-year-old in 1986. She developed well and became a member of the Sogo Keibi Hosoho Club ( English high school wrestling club Hisei ). After high school, she began studying at Chukyo Women's University (CWU). Koji Tanaka and Kazuhito Sakae in the national team were added as coaches. Since the end of her studies she has been working as a representative for a large industrial company.
She achieved her first major sporting successes as a junior. In 1998 in Manchester and 1999 in Lodz she was each junior world champion in the age group “Cadets” (up to the age of 16). In 2000 and 2001, she was then also Junior World Champion in Nantes and Martigny / Switzerland (age group up to 20 years of age). In those years it started in the weight classes up to 52 kg, 56 kg and 58 kg body weight. In these championships she defeated Iwona Matkowska , Poland , Ida-Theres Nerell (then still Ida-Theres Karlsson), Sweden , Marcie van Dusen , USA , Lyubow Michailowna Wolossowa , Russia and Emily Richardson , Canada , wrestlers, to whom she later also would meet again and again with the ladies.
Olympic Champion
The greatest success of every athlete is the Olympic victory. Saori Yoshida enjoyed this success three times. For the first time she became Olympic champion in Athens in 2004 in the weight class up to 55 kg body weight. On the way to this success she had to defeat four opponents. These were Sun Dongmei from China , Diletta Giampiccolo from Italy , Anna Gomis from France and Tonya Verbeek from Canada. While Saori Yoshida won against Sun, Giampiccolo and Verbeek safely in two rounds, Anna Gomis opposed her greatest resistance. Ultimately, Saori Yoshida also won this fight with 2: 0 rounds, had to fight hard for these round wins with 2: 1 and 7: 6 points.
Saori Yoshida achieved his second Olympic victory at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . She also won there in the weight class up to 55 kg body weight and beat Ida-Theres Nerell, Natalja Golz from Russia, Tonya Verbeek and Xu Li from China with 2-0 rounds on the way to her second gold medal . The ratio of points that she scored in these four fights (28: 2) testifies to her superiority.
Saori Yoshida won gold for the third time at the 2012 Olympic Games in London . In her traditional weight class up to 55 kg, she defeated Kelsey Campbell from the United States, Julia Ratkewitsch from Azerbaijan, Valeria Scholobowa , Russia and in the final over Tonya Verbeek from Canada (2-0 rounds, 5-0 points). In her four victorious fights, she gave up no round and no technical point (8: 0 rounds, 13: 0 points).
Saori Yoshida was unable to realize her dream of winning a fourth gold medal at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro like her compatriot Kaori Icho. She won in Rio in the weight class up to 53 kg, which was the first time in the Olympic program, first over Natalja Sinischina, Azerbaijan, Isabelle Sambou, Senegal and Betsabeth Angel. Arguello Villegas, Venezuela, was defeated in the final battle against the strong American Helen Maroulis , the 2015 world champion in the weight class up to 55 kg, with 1: 4 on points and therefore had to be satisfied with the silver medal.
world champion
Japan already had a female wrestler in Seiko Yamamoto who had become world champion in the weight class up to 51 kg (1999) and 56 kg (2000 and 2001) in 1999, 2000 and 2001. In 2002 this was missing from the World Cup. In her place, Saori Yoshida was used at the world championships in Chalkida / Greece in the newly created weight class up to 55 kg. She was unbeatable there and won her first women's world title with victories over Tetjana Lasarewa , Ukraine , Minerva Monteiro Perez, Spain , Jennifer Ryz , Canada, Ida-Theres Karlsson and Tina George from the United States . The points account of their victories was 45: 5.
Saori Yoshida successfully defended this title at the 2003 World Cup in New York . There, too, none of her competitors could take a round from her. The wrestlers she defeated there were Olga Serbina, Belarus , Kitti Godo, Hungary , Monika Ewa Michalik , Poland , Jennifer Ryz, Natalja Golz , Russia and Tina George. The points account of their victories was this time 35: 4. At the end of 2003, Saori Yoshida also cleared the ranking in Japan at the Japanese championship, because she defeated Seiko Yamamoto on shoulders in the final battle of the Japanese championship and from then on she was the undisputed Japanese number 1 in the weight class up to 55 kg body weight.
In a similarly superior manner, she became world champion in Budapest in 2005 . Her opponents Rathi Neha, India , Ana Maria Pavăl , Romania , Ludmila Cristea , Moldova , Tonya Verbeek and Su Lihui , China could not take a round or a point away from her (points ratio: 30: 0).
The same style continued at the 2006 World Championships in Guangzhou and 2007 in Baku . In both years she became world champion again. In Guanzhou they defeated it z. B. Natalja Golz with 2: 0 rounds (2: 0 and 8: 0 points) and in the final battle Maria Iwanowa from Belarus after 2.13 minutes with 13: 0 points. In Baku she had a bit tougher resistance to break. So you put there z. B. surprisingly, the Colombian Jackeline Rentería met the greatest resistance and only lost with 0: 2 rounds (1: 2 and 4: 7 points). Also Olga Smirnova from Kazakhstan Saori Yoshida took off three points in a round. In the final battle of this championship, Ida-Theres Nerell had no chance against Saori Yoshida.
In 2008 in Tokyo , 2009 in Herning / Denmark , 2010 in Moscow and 2011 in Istanbul , Saori Yoshida won her world championship titles No. 6 to 9. She was safe at all of these world championships. She didn't lose a fight or give up a round. The wrestlers she defeated in addition to the aforementioned u. a. Tetjana Lasarewa from Ukraine, Sona Ahmadli from Azerbaijan , Maria Gurowa from Russia, Julia Ratkewitsch from Azerbaijan and Helen Maroulis from the United States. She achieved the best points ratio in 2010 in Moscow, namely 45: 0 !.
After her third Olympic victory in London, Saori Yoshida also started at the World Cup in Strathcona County, Canada, at the end of September 2012, where she won her tenth with victories over Aksija Dautbajewa, Kazakhstan, Geeta Geeta , India, Natalja Sinischin, Ukraine and Helen Maroulis, USA World title.
Actually all wrestling friends thought that Saori Yoshida would end her wrestling career after 2012. It was also not seen on any international wrestling mat until mid-2013. So there was a big surprise when she stood on the mat on September 19, 2013 at the World Championships in Budapest. It soon became apparent that she had lost none of her great ability, because she was there in her traditional weight class up to 55 kg with victories over Ana Maria Paval, Romania, Valerija Scholobowa , Russia, Sündewiin Bjambatseren , Mongolia, Irina Husjak , Ukraine and Sofia Mattsson was world champion for the eleventh time.
In January 2014, Saori Yoshida was part of the Japanese team at the Team World Cup in Tokyo, which defeated Russia 8-0 in the final. She defeated Maria Gurowa in the weight class up to 53 kg with 12: 1 points. In September 2014 she competed in the World Championships in Tashkent. She competed again in the weight class up to 53 kg and won the twelfth world title with victories over Pang Qianyu, China, Natalja Malysheva, Russia, Jillian Gallays, Canada and Sofia Mattsson.
Saori Yoshida was again at the start at the 2015 World Championships in Las Vegas. There she won her thirteenth world title in the weight class up to 53 kg with victories over Nadine Tokar, Switzerland, Thi Lua Nguyen, Vietnam, Angela Dorogan, Azerbaijan, Jong Myong-suk, North Korea and Sofia Mattsson.
Asian Games, Asian Championships
Saori Yoshida won the 2002 Asian Games in Busan , 2006 in Doha and 2010 in Guangzhou . In the final fights she defeated Lee Na-lae from South Korea, Olga Smirnowa and Zhang Lan, China. In 2014 she also won the Asian Games in Incheon (South Korea). She needed four wins. In her first fight she had to overcome great resistance against the Chinese Zhong Xuechen , before she narrowly won with 12: 9 points. In addition, she was Asian champion in 2004 in Tokyo , 2005 in Wuhan , 2007 in Bishkek and 2008 in Jeju-si / South Korea.
Japanese championships
From 2002 to 2011, Saori Yoshida was Japanese champion ten times in a row in the weight class up to 55 kg body weight. The most prominent opponents she defeated were Hitomi Sakamoto , Chikako Matsukawa and Seiko Yamamoto. In December 2013, she won her 11th Japanese championship. In the final she defeated Chiho Hamada and in December 2014 the 12th Japanese championship followed. In the weight class up to 53 kg, she defeated Chiho Hamada again. In December 2015 she won the 13th Japanese championship title with a final victory in the weight class up to 55 kg body weight over Hikari Sugawara.
Defeats
After 196 victorious international fights, Saori Yoshida lost on January 10th, 2008 as part of the Nations World Cup in Taiyuan / China in the match against the United States against the American Marcie van Dusen . In the first lap, Marcie van Dusen countered an attack by Saori Yoshida and even placed it briefly in the bridge. For this action she got a three-point rating. Saori Yoshida could not make up this deficit and lost the first round with 1: 4 points. In the second round, Saori Yoshida took the lead 1-0, but then gave up a two-point ranking. She was then able to force a tie of 2-2, but also lost this lap due to the higher score of Marcie van Dusen.
On May 25, 2012, Saori Yoshida lost in Tokyo as part of the final match of the Team World Cup between Japan and Russia (5: 2 for Japan) in the weight class up to 55 kg against Valeria Scholobova on points (1: 2 rounds, 2: 1, 0: 2, 0: 3 points).
Perspectives
Saori Yoshida won her third Olympic gold in London in 2012. When she was awarded a high honor by the National Olympic Committee of Japan in 2010, when asked about her goals, she replied, "winning the third gold medal in London" and, of course, "winning a friend". She realized her first statement, about her second “you don't know anything”. Together with Ichō Kaori , she was awarded the Kikuchi Kan Prize for her third gold medal at the Olympic Games and for her achievements as a wrestler in 2012 .
International success
| year | space | competition | Weight class | Results |
| 1998 | 1. | Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Manchester | up to 52 kg | before Iwona Matkowska , Poland and Ida-Theres Nerell (then still Ida-Theres Karlsson), Sweden |
| 1999 | 1. | Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Łódź | up to 56 kg | before Zsuszanna Bejczi, Hungary and Marcie van Dusen , USA |
| 2000 | 1. | Junior World Championships in Nantes | up to 58 kg | before Lyubow Michailowna Wolossowa , Russia and Anna Holk, Sweden |
| 2001 | 1. | Junior World Championships in Martigny / Switzerland | up to 58 kg | before Lyubow Michailowna Wolossowa, Breanne Leigh Graham, USA and Ida-Theres Karlsson |
| 2002 | 1. | Universities World Cup in Edmonton | up to 59 kg | ahead of Su Heihua, China , Emily Richardson, Canada and Meryem Selloum , France |
| 2002 | 1. | Asian Games in Busan | up to 55 kg | before Lee Na-lae, South Korea and Naidangiin Otgondschargal , Mongolia |
| 2002 | 1. | World Cup in Chalkida / Greece | up to 55 kg | after victories over Tetjana Lasarewa , Ukraine , Minerva Monteiro Perez, Spain , Jennifer Ryz , Canada, Ida-Theres Nerell (Karlsson) and Tina George , USA |
| 2003 | 1. | World Cup in New York | up to 55 kg | after victories over Olga Serbina, Belarus , Kitti Godo, Hungary , Monika Ewa Michalik , Poland , Jennifer Ryz, Natalja Golz , Russia and Tina George |
| 2003 | 1. | World Cup in Tokyo | up to 55 kg | before Tonya Verbeek , Canada, Natalja Golz and Tina George |
| 2004 | 1. | Asian Championships | up to 55 kg | before Lee Na-lae, Naidangiin Otgondschargal and Balu Renu, India |
| 2004 | gold | OS in Athens | up to 55 kg | after victories over Sun Dongmei , China, Diletta Giampiccolo, Italy , Anna Gomis , France and Tonya Verbeek |
| 2004 | 1. | World Cup in Tokyo | up to 55 kg | before Tela O'Donnell, USA, Natalja Karamtschakowa , Russia and Sun Dongmei |
| 2005 | 1. | World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand | up to 55 kg | before Natalja Golz and Anna Gomis |
| 2005 | 1. | Asian Championships in Wuhan | up to 55 kg | in front of Su Lihui , China, Lee Na-lae and Nguyen Thi Hang, Vietnam |
| 2005 | 1. | Universities World Cup in Izmir | up to 55 kg | before Tonya Verbeek and Marcie van Dusen |
| 2005 | 1. | World Cup in Budapest | up to 55 kg | after victories over Rathi Neha, India, Ana Maria Pavăl , Romania , Ludmila Cristea , Moldova , Tonya Verbeek and Su Lihui |
| 2006 | 1. | World Cup in Nagoya | up to 55 kg | before Su Lihui, Tonya Verbeek and Nataliya Sinişin , Belarus |
| 2006 | 1. | World Cup in Guangzhou | up to 55 kg | after victories over Marcia Yuleisi Andrades Mendoza, Venezuela , Natalja Golz, Anna Gomis, Ida-Theres Nerell and Maria Iwanowa , Belarus |
| 2006 | 1. | Asian Games in Doha | up to 55 kg | before Olga Smirnowa , Kazakhstan , Alka Tomar, India and Naidangiin Otgondschargal |
| 2007 | 1. | Asian Championships in Bishkek | up to 55 kg | before Su Lihui, Su Ying-Tsu, Taiwan and Olga Smirnowa |
| 2007 | 1. | World Cup in Baku | up to 55 kg | after victories over Jessica Bechtel , Germany, Joice Souza da Silva, Brazil , Jackeline Renteria, Colombia , Olga Smirnowa, Alena Filipawa , Belarus and Ida-Theres Nerell |
| 2008 | 1. | Asian Championships 2008 in Jeju-si / South Korea | up to 55 kg | in front of Saltanat Abdrachmanowa, Kazakhstan, Su Ying-Tsu and Xu Li, China |
| 2008 | gold | OS in Beijing | up to 55 kg | after victories over Ida-Theres Nerell, Natalja Golz, Tonya Verbeek and Xu Li |
| 2008 | 1. | World Cup in Tokyo | up to 55 kg | after wins over Kamlesh Devi, India, Anna Swirydowska, Poland, Brittanee Laverdure , Canada and Tetjana Lasarewa |
| 2009 | 1. | World Cup in Herning / Denmark | up to 55 kg | after victories over Maminirina Judicael Rafaliharisolo, Madagascar , Anna Gomis, Ana Maria Pavăl, Tonya Verbeek and Sona Əhmədli , Azerbaijan |
| 2010 | 1. | World Cup in Moscow | up to 55 kg | after victories over Um Ji-eun, South Korea, Tamara Kasarjan, Uzbekistan , Tatjana Padilla , USA, Maria Gurowa , Russia and Julija Ratkewitsch , Azerbaijan |
| 2010 | 1. | Asian Games in Guangzhou | up to 55 kg | in front of Zhang Lan , China, Ajym Äbdildina , Kazakhstan and Pan Yon-Hu, North Korea |
| 2011 | 1. | World Cup in Istanbul | up to 55 kg | after victories over Emriye Musta, Turkey , Helen Maroulis , USA, Alma Jane Valencia Escoto, Mexico , Ida-Theres Nerell and Tonya Verbeek |
| 2012 | 2. | World Cup in Tokyo | up to 55 kg | behind Tonya Verbeek , Canada, together with Valerija Scholobowa , Russia |
| 2012 | gold | OS in London | up to 55 kg | after victories over Kelsey Campbell , USA, Julija Ratkewitsch, Azerbaijan, Valerija Scholobowa and Tonya Verbeek |
| 2012 | 1. | World Cup in Sherwood Park | up to 55 kg | after victories over Aksija Dautbajewa, Kazakhstan, Geeta Kumari , India, Nataliya Sinişin, Ukraine and Helen Maroulis, USA |
| 2013 | 1. | World Cup in Budapest | up to 55 kg | after victories over Ana Maria Paval, Romania, Valerija Koblowa, Russia, Sündewiin Bjambatseren , Mongolia, Irina Husjak, Ukraine and Sofia Mattsson, Sweden |
| 2014 | 1. | World Cup in Incheon / South Korea | up to 53 kg | after victories over Pang Qianyu, China, Natalja Malysheva, Russia, Jillian Gallays, Canada and Sofia Mattsson |
| 2014 | 1. | Asian Games in Incheon / Canada | up to 55 kg | after victories over Zhong Xuechen, China, Pham Thi Loan, Vietnam, Babita Kumari , India and Sündewiin Bjambatseren, Mongolia |
| 2015 | 1. | World Cup in Las Vegas | up to 53 kg | after victories over Nadine Tokar, Switzerland, Thi Lua Nguyen, Vietnam, Angela Dorogan, Azerbaijan, Jong Myon-suk, North Korea and Sofia Mattsson |
| 2016 | silver | OS in Rio de Janeiro | up to 53 kg | after victories over Nataliya Sinişin, Azerbaijan, Isabelle Sambou, Senegal and Betsabeth Angel. Arguello, Venezuela and a loss to Helen Maroulis, USA |
Japanese championships
| year | space | Weight class | Results |
| 2002 | 1. | up to 55 kg | before Hitomi Sakamoto , Chikako Matsukawa and Mari Fukuzawa |
| 2003 | 1. | up to 55 kg | before Seiko Yamamoto , Chikako Matsukawa, and Yu Sekine |
| 2004 | 1. | up to 55 kg | before Chikako Matsukawa, Miho Shibata and Yu Sekine |
| 2005 | 1. | up to 55 kg | before Chikako Matsukawa, Miho Shibata and Ninako Hattori |
| 2006 | 1. | up to 55 kg | before Hitomi Sakamoto, Ayaka Kurumaya and Chikako Matsukawa |
| 2007 | 1. | up to 55 kg | before Chikako Matsukawa, Sachiko Hirada and Miho Shibata |
| 2008 | 1. | up to 55 kg | before Chikao Matsukawa, Ayaka Kuramaya and Chio Hamada |
| 2009 | 1. | up to 55 kg | before Chikako Matsukawa, Chiaki Arai and Kuzuki Sakane |
| 2010 | 1. | up to 55 kg | before Chikako Matsukawa, Kanako Murata and Kei Yamana |
| 2011 | 1. | up to 55 kg | before Kanako Murata , Chikako Matsukawa and Kei Yamana |
| 2013 | 1. | up to 55 kg | before Chiho Hamada , Kanako Murata and Yuki Ikegami |
| 2014 | 1. | up to 53 kg | before Chiho Hamada and Nanami Irie |
| 2015 | 1. | up to 55 kg | before Hikari Sukawara, Chiho Hamada and Anri Kimura |
- Explanations
- all free style competitions
- OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship
literature
- Trade journal Der Ringer
Web links
- Profile at beijing2008.cn ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Profile of Saori Yoshida at the Institute for Applied Training Science
- Website "WWW.japan-wrestling.org"
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Yoshida, Saori |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 吉田 沙 保 里 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th October 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ichishi , Mie Prefecture |