Yushu Kitano
Yūshū Kitano ( Japanese 北野 祐 秀 , Kitano Yūshū ; born April 14, 1930 in Osaka Prefecture ; † February 27, 2016 in Nishinomiya ) was a Japanese wrestler . He won a silver free style flyweight medal at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952 .
Career
Yushu Kitano took part in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics in freestyle wrestling. He was wrestling in the flyweight, the weight class that had its weight limit at 52 kg. Until then, Kitano was completely unknown in the international wrestling camp. He had never participated in an international championship. Nevertheless, he performed very confidently in Helsinki, where he defeated Rolf Johansson from Sweden , Mohamed El Ward , Egypt , Carlos Davila from Mexico , Louis Baise from South Africa and Mahmoud Mollaghassemi from Iran . He lost on points against Hasan Gemici from Turkey . Determining the Olympic champion was not that easy because Kitano, Gemici and Mollaghassemi had beaten each other. At the end of the tournament, Kitano and Gemici each had five missing points, but Mollaghassemi had six. Since Gemici had defeated Kitano, he became Olympic champion , Kitano received the silver medal and Mollaghassemi the bronze medal .
Yushu Kitano started in 1954 at the Asian Games in Manila and came there in bantamweight behind the Pakistani Mohammad Din on the 2nd place. At the world championships taking place in Tokyo in the same year , he again took part in the flyweight division. He came there to victories over Mirian Zalkalamanidze from the USSR and Basilio Pabila from the Philippines . But he just lost the decisive fight for the world title against Hüseyin Akbaş from Turkey .
In other international championships Yushu Kitano no longer took part.
International success
| year | space | competition | Weight class | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 2 | OS in Helsinki | To fly | with victories over Rolf Johansson , Sweden , Mohamed El Ward , Egypt , Carlos Davila , Mexico , Louis Baise , South Africa and Mahmoud Mollaghassemi , Iran and one defeat against Hasan Gemici , Turkey |
| 1954 | 2 | Asia Games in Manila | Bantam | behind Mohammad Din, Pakistan , in front of Basilio Pabila, Philippines |
| 1954 | 2 | World Cup in Tokyo | To fly | with victories over Mirian Zalkalamanidse , Soviet Union a . Basilio Pabila u. a loss to Hüseyin Akbaş , Turkey |
Note: all competitions in free style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, flyweight, then up to 52 kg and bantam weight, then up to 57 kg body weight
swell
- Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of FILA , 1976
- Athletics magazine
Web links
- Profile of Yūshū Kitano at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science
- Yūshū Kitano in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kitano, Yushu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 北野 祐 秀 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osaka Prefecture , Japan |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 2016 |
| Place of death | Nishinomiya , Japan |