Shinobu Ōta

Shinobu Ota, 2016

Shinobu Ōta medal table
Wrestler
Japan
Olympic games
silver	2016 Rio de Janeiro	up to 59 kg
World Championship
gold	2019 Sultan only	up to 63 kg
Asian Games
gold	2018 Jakarta	up to 60 kg
Asian Championships
silver	2014 Almaty	up to 59 kg
bronze	2015 Doha	up to 59 kg
gold	2018 Bishkek	up to 60 kg
Junior World Championship
bronze	2012 Pattaya	up to 59 kg Juniors

Shinobu Ōta ( Japanese 太 田 忍 , Ōta Shinobu ; born December 28, 1993 in Gonohe , Aomori Prefecture ) is a Japanese wrestler . At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, he won a silver medal in the Greco-Roman style in the weight class up to 59 kg body weight. In 2019 he became world champion in the same style in the weight class up to 63 kg body weight.

Career

Shinobu Ōta began wrestling as a teenager, focusing on the Greco-Roman style. He is a member of the ALSOK sports club and is a student at Nippon Sport Science University Tokyo . Since 2012 he has also been a member of the Japanese national team of Greco-Roman wrestlers. His trainer is Shingo Matsumoto. At a height of 1.65 meters, he weighs approx. 65 kg and trains to 59 kg for the competitions.

His first appearance at an international championship was at the Junior World Championship (Juniors) in Pattaya in 2012. In the weight class up to 55 kg, he came in 3rd place behind Eldanis Asisli, Azerbaijan and Wiktor Ciobanu from Moldova. At the Junior World Championships (Juniors) 2013 in Sofia he only came in 10th place. At the Japanese championship for seniors, he finished 2nd in the weight class up to 60 kg behind Kazumo Kuramoto.

Since 2014, Shinobu Ōta has also been used by the Japanese Wrestling Federation in many international tournaments to gain international experience. At the 2014 Golden Grand Prix in Szombathely, where almost the entire world elite gathered, he took 3rd place in the weight class up to 59 kg, behind Olympic champion Hamid Soryan Reihanpour from Iran and Rahman Bilici from Turkey. At the subsequent Asian Championship in Almaty , he was in the same weight class at the start. In the semi-finals of this championship he managed to win over the reigning world champion Yun Won-chol from North Korea. In the final, he had to admit defeat to Elmurat Tasmuradow from Uzbekistan. The year 2014 ended Shinobu Ōta with a 2nd place in the Japanese championship behind Kazuma Kuramoto, but before the long-time title holder Kohei Hasegawa .

In March 2015, Shinobu Ōta won the FILA Grand Prix in Szombathely ahead of Spenser Thomas Mango from the United States and Stig Andre Berge from Norway. At the 2015 Asian Cup in Doha, he came third this year behind Elmurat Tasmuradow and Yun Won-chol. At the Meiji Cup in Tokyo, which was decisive for qualifying for the 2015 World Cup, he came in second in the weight class up to 59 kg behind Shota Tanokura. In December 2015 he was the first Japanese champion in this weight class before Kohei Hasegawa, Shota Tanokura and Masuto Kawana .

In March 2016, Shinobu Ōta won a starting place for Japan at the Olympic qualification tournament in Astana in the weight class up to 59 kg with a 2nd place behind Wang Lumin, China. He also prevailed against Kohei Hasegawa and Kenichiro Fumita in the inner-Japanese dispute for a starting place at the Olympic Games . In Rio de Janeiro he won the silver medal with victories over Hamid Soryan Reihanpour, Almat Kebispajew , Kazakhstan, Stig Andre Berge and Rowschan Bajramow from Azerbaijan and a defeat in the final against Ismael Borrero Molina from Cuba. In December 2016 he lost to Kenichiro Fumita in the Japanese championship with 7: 9 points and only came in 2nd place there.

In 2017 he won tournaments in Camagüey and Warsaw , where he ended up ahead of Kenichiro Fumita, but it was not he, but Fumita who made it to the World Cup this year in Paris. Fumita also became world champion there. At the Japanese championship in December 2017, Shinobu Ōta could reciprocate for the defeat in the final of 2016. He defeated Fumita with 5-4 points and became Japanese champions for the second time.

In February 2018 Shinobu Ōta became Asian champion for the third time in the weight class up to 60 kg in Bishkek. In the final he defeated the North Korean Re Se-ung. In June 2018, he won the Meiji Cup in Tokyo and won the Japanese starting place at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and the 2018 World Cup in Bucharest. In Jakarta he triumphed in the weight class up to 60 kg. In the final battle he defeated Kanibek Scholchubekow from Kyrgyzstan. But at the World Cup in Bucharest he disappointed. He won his first fight there against Mehrdad Abdmohammad Mardani from Iran, but then surprisingly lost to the largely unknown Aidos Sultanagli from Kazakhstan. Since this did not reach the final, he was eliminated and only came in 9th place. At the Japanese championship in December 2018, he reached the final, but lost to his old rival Kenchiro Fumita.

In 2019 he started at the World Championships in Nur Sultan in the weight class up to 63 kg. He became world champion for the first time with victories over Maxim Nehoda, Belarus, Tinar Scharschenbekow , Kyrgyzstan, Almat Kebispajew , Kazakhstan and the defending champion Stepan Marjanjan , Russia.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2012	3.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Pattaya	up to 55 kg	behind Eldanis Asisli, Azerbaijan and Wiktor Ciobanu, Moldova
2013	10.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Sofia	up to 55 kg	after defeating Nitin, India and losing to Mostafa Behzadimoghaddam, Iran
2014	5.	Yadegar Imam Cup in Tehran	up to 59 kg	Winner: Mohsen-Hossein Hajipur, Iran ahead of Yun-Won-chol, North Korea
2014	3.	Golden Grand Prix in Szombathely	to 59	behind Hamid Soryan Reihanpour, Iran and Rahman Bilici, Turkey
2014	2.	Asian Championship in Almaty	up to 59 kg	after victories over Mohamed Al Saedi, Iraq, Yang Teng-Kuei, Taiwan and Yun Won-chul, North Korea and a defeat against Elmurat Tasmuradow, Uzbekistan
2014	7th	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 59 kg	Winner: Taleh Mammadow, Azerbaijan ahead of Saman Abdouvali, Iran and Stig Andre Berge, Norway
2014	1.	Copa Brasil in Rio de Janeiro	up to 59 kg	in front of Diego Romanelli, Brazil
2015	1.	FILA Grand Prix in Szombathely	up to 59 kg	before Spenser Thomas Mango, USA and Stig Andre Berge
2015	3.	Asian Championship in Doha	up to 59 kg	behind Elmurat Tasmuradow and Yun Won-chol
2016	2.	Hungarian Grand Prix in Szombathely	up to 59 kg	behind Kohei Hasegawa, Japan, in front of Ryan Mango, USA and Wang Lumin, China
2016	2.	Olympic qualification tournament in Astana	up to 59 kg	behind Wang Lumin, in front of Firus Tuchtajew, Uzbekistan
2016	silver	OS in Rio de Janeiro	up to 59 kg	after victories over Hamid Soryan Reihanpour , Almat Kebispajew , Kazakhstan, Stig Andre Berge and Rowschan Bajramow, Azerbaijan and a defeat against Ismael Borrero Molina , Cuba
2017	1.	Cerro Pelado International in Camagüey	up to 59 kg	before Kenichiro Fumita, Japan and Javier Dumenigo, Cuba
2017	1.	"Wladyslaw-Pytlasinski" Cup in Warsaw	up to 59 kg	before Sergei Emelin, Russia, Kenichiro Fumita and Kanibek Scholchubekow, Kyrgyzstan
2017	3.	Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid	up to 59 kg	behind Kenichiro Fumita and Yasin Ozay, France
2018	1.	Asian Championship in Bishkek	up to 60 kg	in front of Re Se-ung, North Korea, Kanibek Scholchubekow, Kyrgyzstan and Islomjon Bachramow, Uzbekistan
2018	3.	"Dan Kolow" & "Nikola Petrow" Memorial in Sofia	up to 63 kg	behind Nikolai Iwanow Winchew, Bulgaria and Mihai-Radu Mihut, Romania
2018	1.	Asian Games in Jakarta	up to 60 kg	in front of Kanibek Scholchubekow, Mairambek Ainagulow, Kazakhstan and Mehrdad Abdmohammad Mardani, Iran
2018	9.	World Cup in Bucharest	up to 60 kg	after defeating Mehrdad Abdmohammad Mardani and losing to Aidos Sultanagli, Kazakhstan
2019	1.	Hungarian Grand Prix in Györ	up to 63 kg	before Tuo Erbatu, China, Meysam Delchani, Iran and Walihan Sailike, China
2019	2.	"Dan-Kolow" & "Nikolai-Petrov" Memorial in Russe	up to 63 kg	behind Stepan Marjanjan , Russia, in front of Rahman Bilici, Turkey and Tuo Erbatu
2019	1.	"Oleg Karavayev" Memorial in Minsk	up to 63 kg	after victories over Roman Ivanov, Russia, Ihar Drozd, Belarus, Mairambek Ainagulow and Islomjon Bachramow, Uzbekistan
2019	1.	World Cup in Nur Sultan	up to 63 kg	after victories over Maxim Nehoda, Belarus, Tinar Scharschenbekow, Kyrgyzstan, Almat Kebispajew, Kazakhstan and Stepan Marjanjan , Russia

National competitions

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2013	2.	Japanese championship	up to 60 kg	behind Kazuma Kuramoto, in front of Yoshitaka Kido and Naoto Tsuchida
2014	2.	Japanese championship	up to 59 kg	behind Kazuma Kuramoto, in front of Kohei Hasegawa and Shota Tanokura
2015	1.	Japanese championship	up to 59 kg	before Kohei Hasegawa, Shota Tanakura and Masuto Kawana
2016	2.	Japanese championship	up to 59 kg	behind Kenichiro Fumita
2017	1.	Japanese championship	up to 59 kg	before Kenichiro Fumita, Kiyoshi Kawaguchi and Hayanobu Shimizu
2018	1.	Meiji Cup in Tokyo	up to 60 kg	before Hayanobu Shimizu, Kiyoshi Kawaguchi and Ryotaru Fujinami
2018	2.	Japanese championship	up to 60 kg	behind Kenchiro Fumita, in front of Kazuki Yabe and Kyotaru Sogabe
2019	1.	World Cup elimination in Tokyo	up to 63 kg	before Yoshiki Yamada

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship

literature

• Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

Commons : Shinobu Ōta  - collection of images

• Profile of Shinobu Ōta at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science
• Shinobu Ōta in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Japanese Championship 2016
• Japanese Championship 2017