Shigeru Kasahara

Shigeru Kasahara ( jap. 笠原茂 , Kasahara Shigeru * 11. June 1933 ) is a former Japanese wrestler and silver medalist at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne in free style at lightweight.

Life

In Shigeru Kasahara, Japan owned a second world class wrestler in the featherweight class in the free style in the mid-1950s in addition to Shōzō Sasahara . Kasahara attended Meiji University . Kasahara and Sasahara always avoided each other at championships and did not train together.

1954, the year in which Sasahara became world champion in Tokyo in the featherweight division, Kasahara was used in the Asian Games in Manila in the featherweight division. He won this tournament in a superior style.

At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 , Shigeru Kasahara started in the lightweight. He also proved himself in this weight class and won with four wins, including one over the Soviet favorite Alimbeg Bestajew the silver medal.

After the Olympic Games in 1956, Shigeru Kasahara, only 23 years old, ended his wrestling career and became a coach. A textbook he wrote in 1971 on training theory in the free and Greco-Roman style is still considered a classic of training theory in wrestling.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, F = freestyle, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight, at that time up to 62 kg or 67 kg body weight)

• 1954, 1st place , Asian Games in Manila , F, Fe, ahead of Napily Mansueto, Philippines , Kim Yung-Jun, Korea , Mir Imandin, Pakistan u. M. Ms. Ameen, Ceylon ;
• 1956, silver medal , OS in Melbourne , F, Le, with victories over David Schumacher, Australia , Juan Rolon, Argentina , Mateo Tanaquin, Philippines a. Alimbeg Bestajew , USSR a . Losses against Jay Thomas Evans , USA a . Imam Ali Habibi , Iran

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• various issues of the specialist magazine Athletik from 1954 to 1956,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Web links

• Overview of lightweight free style Olympic medal winners
• Photo of Shigeru Kasahara after his victory over the Australian Schumacher at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne