Yōko Sakaue
Yōko Sakaue ( Japanese 坂 上 洋子 Sakaue Yōko ; born August 29, 1968 in Nagasaki Prefecture ) is a former Japanese judoka . She was third in the heavyweight division in 1992.
Athletic career
The 1.63 m tall Yōko Sakaue won a bronze medal in the open class at the Asian Championships in 1988. At the World Cup tournament in Paris in 1990, she finished third. Two years later she reached the finals in Paris, where she lost to the Cuban Estela Rodríguez .
At the Olympic premiere in the women's judo in Barcelona in 1992 , she defeated the Brazilian Edilene Aparecida in the first round by a judge's decision (yusei-gachi). In the last sixteen she defeated Colleen Rosensteel from the United States by Ippon after 1:37 minutes. In the next round she beat the German Claudia Weber after 2:57 minutes and reached the semifinals. There she was defeated by the Chinese Zhuang Xiaoyan after 3:40 minutes. She won the battle for a bronze medal against Beata Maksymow from Poland after 2:40 minutes.
Web links
- Yōko Sakaue in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Tournament results at judoinside.com
Footnotes
- ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 429
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| SURNAME | Sakaue, Yoko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sakaue, Yoko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese judoka |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 29th August 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nagasaki Prefecture |