Yasuhiro Inaba

Yasuhira Inaba ( Japanese 稲 葉 泰 弘 , Inaba Yasuhiro ; born October 21, 1985 in Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a Japanese wrestler . He won a bronze medal at the 2010 free style bantamweight championship .

Career

Yasuhira Inaba attended Kasumigaura High School in Ami in Ibaraki Prefecture on Honshu Island and began wrestling there as a teenager in 2000. He concentrated entirely on the free style. After high school, he attended Senshu University in Chiyoda , Tokyo, and entered the police force after graduation. He is therefore a member of the Metropolitan Police Department Wrestling Club Tokyo . His trainer is Masakazu Hirakata. The 1.62 meter tall athlete weighs around 60 kg and competes in bantamweight championships, the weight class with a weight limit of 55 kg.

Yasuhira Inaba celebrated his first major success in 2003 when he took 1st place at the national high school championships (championship of Japanese high school wrestlers) in the weight class up to 54 kg body weight. In 2004 he took 3rd place in the Japanese Student Championship and also achieved this place in the Japanese Championship, in which he participated for the first time. He placed himself behind Tomohiro Matsunaga and Seshito Shimizu in the bantamweight division .

In 2005 he was Japanese runner-up in bantamweight behind Tomohiro Matsunaga . He started this year at the Junior World Championships in Vilnius and reached the bantamweight final with four wins, in which he was defeated by the top Russian wrestler Bessik Kuduchow .

In the years 2006 to 2009 Yasuhiro Inaba could always assert himself in the front field at the Japanese championships. However, he did not succeed in winning the Japanese championship title in those years, which was due to the fact that Japan has three world-class wrestlers in this weight class with Tomohiro Matsunaga , Hideki Taoka and Shinichi Yumoto , of which at least one is always ahead at the Japanese championships of those years Inaba placed. As a result, he did not appear at the international championships, but started at many high-level international tournaments and achieved many good successes there.

In 2008 Inaba started at the Universities World Championship in Thessaloniki and won the bantamweight there in front of such good wrestlers as Mikhail Sakharov , Russia , Alexander Chawilow , Ukraine and Wladislaw Andrejew from Belarus .

In 2009 Yasuhiro Inaba finally succeeded in becoming the Japanese bantamweight champion and in 2010 he was used for the first time at a world championship. In Moscow he came to victories over Ibrahim Farag Abdelhakim, Egypt , Aslan Tschanachanow, Kazakhstan , John Pineda , Canada and Obenson Blanc from the United States. In the semifinals of the World Cup he lost to Toğrul Əsgərov from Azerbaijan . In the battle for a world championship bronze medal , he managed to beat Bajaraagiin Naranbaatar from Mongolia .

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Result
2005	5.	Dan Kolow Memorial in Plovdiv	Bantam	with a victory over Tekin Soyer, Turkey a . a loss to Bessarion Gotschashvili , Georgia
2005	2.	Junior World Championships in Vilnius	Bantam	with victories over Kim Yong-up, South Korea , Chiziri Dudujew, Belarus , Mustafa Kartal, Turkey u. Farchad Urazimbetow, Uzbekistan u. a loss to Bessik Kuduchow , Russia
2006	2.	Dan Kolow tournament in Plovdiv	Bantam	with victories over Krasimir Krastanow , Bulgaria a. Maxim Petrow, Bulgaria a. a loss to Tomohiro Matsunaga , Japan
2006	3.	Uzbekistan Grand Prix in Tashkent	Bantam	after defeat by Dilschod Mansurow , Uzbekistan a. Wins over Namig Sewdimow , Azerbaijan and Hideki Taoka , Japan
2006	2.	Dave Schultz Memorial in Colorado Springs	Bantam	after victories over Luke Eustice u. Michael Martinez, bde. USA & Jamal Otarsultanow , Russia a. a loss to Matt Azevedo , USA
2006	5.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	Bantam	behind Dilschod Mansurow , Radoslaw Welikow , Bulgaria , Samuel Henson , USA a. Named Sewdimow
2008	5.	Dave Schultz Memorial in Colorado Springs	Bantam	with victories over Mariusz Walkowiak, Poland , Obenson Blanc u. Stephen Abas , bde. USA & Defeats against Ryswan Hajjyeu , Belarus a . Nick Simmons, USA
2008	1.	Universities World Cup in Thessaloniki	Bantam	with victories over Mahmut Bayoglu, Turkey, Wladislaw Andrejew, Belarus, Alexander Chirtoaca , Romania a . Mikhail Sakharov , Russia
2009	1.	Dan Kolow tournament in Varna	Bantam	with victories over Krum Chuchurow, Bulgaria, Shinichi Yumoto , Japan, Bajaraagiin Naranbaatar , Mongolia a . John Pineda , Canada
2009	2.	Yasar Dogu Memorial in Ankara	Bantam	with victories over Wladislaw Andrejew, Mahmut Bayoglu, Bajaraagiin Naranbaatar u. Yerkebala Turgunbajew, Kazakhstan u. a loss to Shinichi Yumoto
2009	2.	Uzbekistan Grand Prix in Tashkent	Bantam	with victories over Jeyhan Aliyev, Azerbaijan, Viktor Lebedew , Russlan and others. Yerkebala Turgunbajew u. a loss to Ashot Terteryan, Russia
2009	2.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	Bantam	behind Namig Sewdimow , in front of Yaser Khalpour Alamdardehi, Iran a. Kim Hyo-sub, South Korea
2010	5.	Ivan Yarigin Memorial in Krasnoyarsk	Bantam	behind Yang Kyong-il , North Korea , Nariman Israpilow , Russia, Wiktor Lebedew u. Hideki Taoka
2010	5.	Alexander Medved Tournament in Minsk	Bantam	after victories over Hamza Fatah, France a . Adama Diatta, Senegal et al. Losses against Ghenadie Tulbea , Monaco a . Jamal Otarsultanov
2010	5.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	Bantam	behind Shinichi Yumoto , Nariman Israpilow , Bessarion Gotschaschwili , Angel Escubedo u. Radoslav Velikov , Bulgaria
2010	3.	World Cup in Moscow	Bantam	with victories over Ibrahim Farag Abdelhakim, Egypt , Aslan Tschanachanow, Kazakhstan, John Pineda u. Obenson Blanc , a loss against Toğrul Əsgərov , Azerbaijan a. a victory over Bajaraagiin Naranbaatar

National successes

year	space	competition	Weight class	Result
2003	1.	Yep High school championships	up to 54 kg body weight
2004	3.	Yep Universities Championship	Bantam	behind Kohei Hasegawa u. Masashi Saito
2004	3.	Yep championship	Bantam	behind Tomohiro Matsunaga u. Seshito Shimizu
2005	1.	Yep Junior Championship	Bantam
2005	2.	Yep championship	Bantam	behind Tomohiro Matsunaga, in front of Masashi Sairo u. Hideki Taoka
2006	3.	Yep Universities Championship	Bantam	behind Kohei Hasegawa u. Shinichi Yumoto
2007	1.	Yep Universities Championship	Bantam	before Naoki Tomioka
2007	3.	Yep championship	Bantam	behind Tomohiro Matsunaga u. Hideki Taoka, together with Shinichi Yumoto
2008	2.	Yep championship	Bantam	behind Shinichi Yumoto, in front of Yasuhiro Morita u. Seshito Shimizu
2009	1.	Yep championship	Bantam	before Hideki Taoka, Fumitaka Morishita, Kazuhida Tomioka u. Shinichi Yumoto

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• WM = World Championship
• Bantam weight is weight class up to 55 kg body weight

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• Bantam weight, up to 55 kg body weight

Web links

• Profile of Yasuhiro Inaba at the Institute for Applied Training Science