Yuki Irie

Yuki Irie medal table
Wrestling
Japan
Asian Games
silver	2018 Jakarta	up to 50 kg
Asian Championships
gold	2015 Doha	up to 48 kg
bronze	2018 Bishkek	up to 50 kg
gold	2019 Xi'an, China	up to 50 kg
Junior World Championships
gold	2012 Pattaya	up to 48 kg Juniors

Yuki Irie ( Japanese 入 江 ゆ き , Irie Yuki ; born September 17, 1992 ) is a Japanese wrestler . She was Junior World Champion in 2012 and Asian Champion in 2015 in the weight class up to 48 kg.

Career

Yuki Irie started wrestling at the age of five in 1997. She attended the Fukuoka-ken-ritsu Kokura shōgyō kōtō-gakkō ("Kokura Commercial High School of Fukuoka Prefecture") in Kitakyūshū , Fukuoka Prefecture and is now a student at the Kyūshū Kyōritsu University , whose wrestling club she also belongs to. She is trained by Keiji Fukuda. The 1.52 meter tall athlete weighs around 50 kg and has only competed in the weight class up to 48 kg so far. Her sister Nanami Irie , who is three years her junior, is also a world class wrestler.

In 2011 she became the Japanese junior champion. In the same year she also proved herself with the senior women in a big international tournament. She won the Golden Grand Prix in Klippan in front of such good wrestlers as Iwona Matkowska from Poland and Patimat Bagomedowa from Azerbaijan . At the Japanese championship for senior women in December 2011, she came in third behind the multiple world champions Hitomi Obara and Eri Tosaka.

In 2012 she was again Japanese junior champion. In September 2012, she competed at the Junior World Championships in Pattaya , where she won the world championship title in a superior style ahead of Vu Thi Hang, Vietnam . A few weeks later she also became a student world champion in Kuortane / Finland. In the final of the Japanese championships, she lost to Eri Tosaka on points in December 2012. Against the same wrestler, she lost in the final of the Japanese championship in 2013.

Yuki Irie started the year 2014 with a victory at the renowned "Ivan-Yarigin" memorial in Krasnoyarsk in the weight class up to 48 kg, ahead of the Russians Nadezhda Fedorova, Anselika Wetoschkina and Valerija Tschepsarakowa . In 2014, however, she did not appear at international championships.

In May 2015, Yuki Irie was Asian champion in the weight class up to 48 kg in Doha ahead of Vinesh, India, Tatjana Amanschol-Bakatschuk, Kazakhstan and Kim Hyon-Gyong, North Korea. In December 2015, she became the first Japanese champion among senior women in the weight class up to 48 kg body weight. In the final, she defeated it Yui Susaki .

Yuki Irie did not qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, she failed because of Eri Tosaka, who also became Olympic champion. In June 2017, Yuki Irie took 3rd place behind Yui Susaki and Miho Igarashi at the Japanese qualifying tournament for this year's World Cup in Tokyo and was not used at the World Cup. But she surprised at the Japanese championship held in December 2017, because she won the title there in the new weight class up to 50 kg body weight from Miho Igarashi and the 2017 world champion Yui Susaki and the 2016 Olympic champion Eri Tosaka.

At the 2018 Asian Championships in Bishkek, Yuki Irie came third in the weight class up to 50 kg, behind Lei Chun from China and Vinesh from India. In March 2018, she was also on the Japanese women's national team, which won the World Cup in Takasaki with a 6-4 victory over China. In the final, she shouldered the Chinese Sun Yanan . In June 2018, she took second place behind Yui Susaki and ahead of Eri Tosaka and Miho Igarashi at the Meiji Cup, a challenge tournament for the formation of the Japanese world championship team in Tokyo. At the Asian Games 20918 in Jakarta, she reached the final in the weight class up to 50 kg, in which she was defeated by the Indian Vinesh.

In April 2019, Yuki Irie won her second Asian Champion title. In the final, she defeated the former world champion Sun Yanan from China. In July 2019, Yuki Irie defeated Yui Susaki in Wako-City in an elimination match for the World Championship, which was specially scheduled by the Japanese Wrestling Association, with 6: 1 points.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2011	1.	Golden Grand Prix in Klippan	up to 48 kg	before Iwona Matkowska, Poland, Patimat Bagomedowa, Azerbaijan and Julita Omilusik, Poland
2012	1.	Junior World Championships in Pattaya	up to 48 kg	in front of Vu Thi Hang, Vietnam, Mercedes Denes, Hungary and Nadeschda Fedorowa, Russia
2012	1.	Universities World Cup in Kuortane / Finland	up to 48 kg	before Li Ni, China , Irina Rybak, Ukraine and Jasmine Mian, Canada
2013	2.	World Cup in Ulan-Baator	up to 48 kg	behind Sun Yanan , China, in front of Jasmine Mian
2013	1.	New York Athletic Club International	up to 48 kg	before Jasmine Mian and Victoria Anthony, USA
2014	1.	"Ivan Yarigin" Memorial in Krasnoyarsk	up to 48 kg	before Nadezhda Fedorova, Angelika Wetoschkina and Valerija Tschepsarakowa, all Russia
2014	3.	Meji Cup	up to 48 kg	behind Eri Tosaka and Yu Miyahara , in front of Shiori Ito, all Japan
2014	3.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 48 kg	behind Maria Stadnik , Azerbaijan and Elena Wostrikowa , Russia
2015	1.	Asian Championship in Doha	up to 48 kg	in front of Vinesh, India, Tatjana Amanschol-Bakatschuk, Kazakhstan and Kim Hyon-Gyong, North Korea
2016	1.	"Ivan Yarigin" Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk	up to 48 kg	in front of Nadeschda Fedorowa and Daria Leksina, both Russia and Narangerel Erdenesuch, Mongolia
2018	1.	"Ivan Yarigin" Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk	up to 50 kg	before Kim Song-hyang, South Korea, Angelika Wetoschkina and Ni Jie, China
2018	3.	Asian championship in Bishkek	up to 50 kg	behind Lei Chun, China and Vinesh, India
2018	2.	Asian Games in Jakarta	up to 50 kg	behind Vinesh, in front of Kim Son-hyang, North Korea and Kim Hyung-joo, South Korea
2019	1.	Asian Championship in Xi'an, China	up to 50 kg	after victories over Seema Seema, India, Hsieh Meng-hsuan, Taiwan, Walentina Brik, Kazakhstan and Sun Yanan

National competitions

year	space	Age group	competition	Weight class	Results
2011	1.	Juniors	Japanese championship	up to 48 kg
2011	3.	Women	Japanese championship	up to 48 kg	behind Hitomi Obara and Eri Tosaka
2012	1.	Juniors	Japanese championship	up to 48 kg	before Hikaru Aono
2012	2.	Women	Japanese championship	up to 48 kg	behind Eri Tosaka , in front of Ayano Suzuka and Yuka Yago
2013	2.	Women	Japanese championship	up to 48 kg	behind Eri Tosaka, in front of Yoshika Watanabe and Yuko Yugo
2014	3.	Women	Japanese championship	up to 48 kg	behind Eri Tosaka and Yu Miyahara
2015	1.	Women	Japanese championship	up to 48 kg	before Yui Susaki , Miho Igarashi and Kika Kagata
2017	1.	Women	Japanese championship	up to 50 kg	before Miho Igarashi , Yui Susaki and Eri Tosaka
2018	1.	Women	Japanese championship	up to 50 kg	before Kika Kagata, Eri Tosaka and Miho Igarashi
2019	1.	Women	World Cup elimination match in Wako City	up to 50 kg	with a 6-1 point win over Yui Susaki

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• WM = World Championship

literature

• Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

• Profile of Yuki Irie at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science
• http://www.japan-wrestling.org
• http://www.japan-wrestling.jp
• Results of the World Cup elimination on July 6, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ to Nihon Wrestling Kyōkai (English Japan Wrestling Federation ), 【全 日本 選手 権 ・ 展望 14】 小 原 日 登 美 （自衛隊）） が 悲願 の 五 輪 出場 果 た す か… 女子 48kg 級 on September 17, 1993
2. ↑ Kyūshū Kyōritsu Daigaku: 【レ ス リ ン グ 部】 本 学 学生 が 2012 年 ジ ュ ニ ア 世界 レ ス リ ン グ 選手 権 大会 で 優勝 し ま し た