Yoriko Okamoto
Yoriko Okamoto 
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| Birthday: | September 6, 1971 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Kadoma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 169 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 67 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yoriko Okamoto ( Japanese 岡本 依 子 Okamoto Yoriko ; born September 6, 1971 in Kadoma ) is a former Japanese Taekwondoin .
Career
Yoriko Okamoto secured bronze in the weight class up to 65 kilograms at the Asian Championships in Manila in 1994 and in Melbourne in 1996 . In addition, she won silver in this class in Ho Chi Minh City in 1998 , as well as in 2006 in Bangkok in the class up to 67 kilograms. At the Asian Games in Bangkok in 1998 , she was third in the class up to 60 kilograms. Okamoto took part in the Olympic Games three times : in 2000 she met Trude Gundersen in Sydney in the weight class up to 67 kilograms, after an opening win in the first round, to whom she was defeated 4-7. In the subsequent round of hope, she won her two fights and thus received the bronze medal. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , where she competed in the weight class over 67 kilograms, she was defeated in both the first round of the main competition and the round of hope. In 2008 she failed again in the class up to 60 kilograms in the first round. In 2009 she ended her career.
Web links
- Yoriko Okamoto in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Yoriko Okamoto on the pages of TaekwondoData .com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Taekwondo bronze medalist Okamoto calls it quits. In: japantimes.co.jp. The Japan Times , February 9, 2009, accessed April 29, 2019 .
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| SURNAME | Okamoto, Yoriko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 岡本 依 子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese Taekwondoin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kadoma , Japan |