Yōko Tanabe

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Yōko Tanabe ( Japanese 田 辺 陽 子 Tanabe Yōko ; born January 28, 1966 in Tokyo ) is a former Japanese judoka . She won two Olympic silver medals and five medals at world championships.

Career

The 1.73 m tall Yōko Tanabe mostly competed in the light heavyweight division, occasionally also in the open class. At the 1987 World Championships in Essen she was defeated in the semi-finals of the light heavyweight division against Belgian Ingrid Berghmans . With a victory over the French Laetitia Meignan Tanabe secured a bronze medal. In 1988, judo competitions for women were offered as part of the demonstration competitions at the Olympic Games in Seoul. Tanabe lost again in the semi-finals against Berghmans and won a bronze medal by beating the Brazilian Soraia André . In 1989 Tanabe won the Tournoi de Paris for the first time . At the 1989 World Championships , Tanabe received two medals. In the light heavyweight division she lost to Ingrid Berghmans in the final. In the open class she lost in her first fight against Berghmans, with five victories in the round of hope Tanabe won a bronze medal.

In early 1990 Tanabe won again at the Tournoi de Paris . At the Asian Games in Beijing in 1990 Tanabe won the light heavyweight division by beating the Chinese Wei Feng Wu in the final . Tanabe won a bronze medal in the open class. In July 1991 Tanabe defeated the French Laetitia Meignan in the light heavyweight semifinals of the World Championships in Barcelona , in the final she was defeated by the South Korean Kim Mi-jung . Four months later, Tanabe won the Asian Championships. At the beginning of the 1992 season, Kim Mi-jung won over Tanabe at the Tournoi de Paris . Kim and Tanabe also faced each other in the final of the Olympic Games in Barcelona . Kim won by a judge's decision.

After a long break, Tanabe returned to the judo mat at the tournament in Fukuoka at the end of 1994 and took second place. At the 1995 World Championships in Chiba, Tanabe lost to the Belgian Ulla Werbrouck in the semi-finals , but won a bronze medal by defeating Chinese Zhao Limin . In early 1996 Tanabe won the Tournoi de Paris for the third time . At the end of her career, Yōko Tanabe went to the Atlanta Olympics in July 1996 . She defeated the German Hannah Ertel in the second round after 2:32 minutes. In the quarter-finals she beat the British Kate Howey in 1:33 minutes, in the semifinals against the French Estha Essombe Tanabe had to play the full time. The final, however, lasted a short time, after two seconds Ulla Werbrouck had won through Ippon.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 – Atlanta 1996 . P. 228
  3. ↑ The match record at judoinside.com shows two fights against the Finnish Heli Syrja in the light heavyweight division and two fights against the Canadian Sandra Greaves in the open class. If you assume that Tanabe competed against Syrja and Greaves in both competitions, you get five wins in the hopes. If you only cancel one fight against Greaves, there would be four wins in the round of hope.
  4. ↑ Asian Games 1990 at judoinside.com
  5. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 – Atlanta 1996 . P. 428f
  6. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 – Atlanta 1996 . P. 762
personal data
SURNAME Tanabe, Yoko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese judoka
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo