Shoko Yoshimura
| Shoko Yoshimura medal table |
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|---|---|---|
| Japan | ||
| World Championship | ||
| bronze | 1987 Lorenskog / Norway | up to 44 kg |
| gold | 1989 Martigny / Switzerland | up to 44 kg |
| gold | 1990 Lulea / Sweden | up to 44 kg |
| bronze | 1991 Tokyo | up to 44 kg |
| silver | 1992 Villeurbanne | up to 44 kg |
| gold | 1993 Stavern / Norway | up to 44 kg |
| gold | 1994 Sofia | up to 44 kg |
| gold | 1995 Moscow | up to 44 kg |
| bronze | 1996 Sofia | up to 44 kg |
| Asian Championship | ||
| gold | 1996 Xianshoh / China | up to 44 kg |
| gold | 1997 | up to 46 kg |
| gold | 2000 Seoul | up to 46 kg |
Shoko Yoshimura (born October 14, 1968 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese wrestler . From 1989 to 1995 she won five world championship titles in the weight class up to 44 kg body weight.
Career
Shoko Yoshimura began wrestling in the mid-1980s, when it became clear that women's wrestling would establish itself and international championships would soon take place. The only 1.53 meter tall athlete weighed less than 50 kg and was able to compete in the lightest weight class in women's wrestling. She started for the TBC Yoyogi Club . She has had several coaches in her career. Most of all it owes it to Shigo Kinase, Akira Suzuki, and Ryo Kanehama.
With five titles at the world championships in women's wrestling, she is one of the most successful women wrestlers of all time. She is one of the pioneers of international and Japanese women's wrestling. She won the world title in 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994 and 1995. In 1992 she was runner-up and in 1987, 1991 and 1996 she won a bronze medal at the World Championships.
Her main competitors in those years were Brigitte Weigert from Belgium, Huang Yu-Hsien from Taiwan, Tatjana Karamtschakowa from Russia, Tine Strand from Norway, Mette Barlie from Norway and Patricia Saunders from the United States and Almuth Leitgeb from Austria. Shoko Yoshimura was also a multiple Japanese master.
Shoko Yoshimura was an active wrestler until 2004. Her wish to take part in the Olympic Games one day did not come true. In 2004 there were competitions in women's wrestling for the first time at the Olympic Games in Athens, but Shoko Yoshimura could no longer qualify for the Japanese team. At the Japanese championship of 2003 she only came in 5th place. The heyday of Chiharu Icho had now begun, who in 2004 also became Olympic champion in the weight class up to 48 kg.
After finishing her active career as a wrestler, Shoko Yoshimura became a wrestler trainer at the JOC Elite Academy Tokyo (the training center of the Japanese Olympic Committee).
In 2009 she was inducted into the "Hall of Fame" by the FILA World Wrestling Association.
International success
| year | space | competition | Weight class | Results |
| 1986 | 2. | Women's World Cup in Mechelen | up to 44 kg | behind Brigitte Weigert, Belgium, in front of Mady van Wijtsel, Belgium |
| 1987 | 3. | World Cup in Lorenskog / Norway | up to 44 kg | behind Brigitte Weigert and Anne Therese Johnsen, Norway |
| 1989 | 1. | World Cup in Martigny / Switzerland | up to 44 kg | in front of Huang Yu-Hsien, Taiwan and Trine Strand , Norway |
| 1990 | 1. | World Cup in Lulea / Sweden | up to 44 kg | in front of Marie Ziegler, USA, Chen Hueri-Hsiang, Taiwan and Trine Strand |
| 1991 | 3. | World Cup in Tokyo | up to 44 kg | behind Zhong Xiue, China and Marie Ziegler, in front of Tatjana Karamtschakowa, USSR |
| 1992 | 2. | World Cup in Villeurbanne / France | up to 44 kg | before Tatjana Karamtschakowa and Dana Kurekova, Czechoslovakia |
| 1993 | 1. | World Cup in Stavern / Norway | up to 44 kg | in front of Trine Strand, Tatjana Karamtschakowa and Debbie Weiss, USA |
| 1994 | 1. | World Cup in Sofia | up to 44 kg | before Tatjana Karamtschakowa, Dana Durekova and Anne Therese Johnsen |
| 1995 | 1. | World Cup in Moscow | up to 44 kg | ahead of Mette Barlie, Norway, Vickie Zummo, USA and Almuth Leitgeb, Austria |
| 1996 | 1. | Asian Championships in Xianshoh / China | up to 44 kg | before Chiu Jai-Fen, Taiwan, Ma Christina Villanueva, Philippines and Jelena Rianzewa, Kazakhstan |
| 1996 | 3. | World Cup in Sofia | up to 44 kg | behind Zhong Xiue, China and Almuth Leitgeb |
| 1997 | 1. | Asian Championships | up to 46 kg | before Yukie Umeda, Japan, Wuk Li-Chuan, Taiwan and Wu Shu-Hua, Taiwan |
| 1999 | 4th | World Cup in Boden / Hildursborg / Sweden | up to 46 kg | behind Patricia Saunders, USA, Zhong Xiue and Inga Karamtschakowa, Russia |
| 2000 | 1. | Asian Championships 2000 in Seoul | up to 46 kg | before Kao Wie-Chien, Taiwan and Chi Lina, China |
| 2004 | 1. | Oceania Championship in Dedeno (GUM) | up to 48 kg |
- Explanations
- all free style competitions
- WM = World Championship
literature
- Trade journal Der Ringer
Web links
- Profile of Shoko Yoshimura at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science
- Portrait of Shoko Yoshimura
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yoshimura, Shoko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1968 |