Yutaka Kaneko

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Yutaka Kaneko (born April 21, 1933 ) is a former Japanese wrestler . He won a bronze medal in free style in welterweight at the world championships in 1954 and 1961 .

Career

Yutaka Kaneko started wrestling as a teenager in high school. He later attended Chūō University in Tokyo , where he found very good training conditions for his sport. In 1954 he won his first international championship title. He became a welterweight winner, free style, at the Asian Games in Manila . In the same year he won his first world championship medal, the bronze, at the world championship in his native Tokyo in the free style in welterweight. His victory over the Turkish Bekir Büke was remarkable . He lost to Mohammad Ali Fardin from Iran and Wachtang Balawadze from the USSR .

In the next few years, Yutaka Kaneko no longer made the leap to the international championships regularly. Mitsuo Ikeda started at the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 and other Japanese wrestlers were also used at the Free Style World Championships in 1957 and 1959. At the start, however, he was at the Asian Games in Tokyo in 1958. He defended his welterweight championship there with a victory over the strong Iranian Jahanbahkt Tovfighe .

In 1960 he successfully qualified for the Olympic Games in Rome . In the free style, he won the welterweight division in his first three fights and beat u. a. also the starter of the all-German team Martin Heinze from Halle (Saale) . After that, however, he had to admit defeat to the Italian Gaitano de Vescovi and the Turkish İsmail Ogan and slipped to the ungrateful 4th place.

At the world championship in free style in 1961 in Yokohama , Yutaka Kaneko succeeded in winning the bronze medal in the welterweight division. He was defeated by Mikhail Bekmurzov from the USSR and Imam-Ali Habibi from Iran. He had won u. a. also about Günther Maritschnigg from Witten , the German Olympic champion from 1960, but in the Greco-Roman style.

In 1962 Yutaka Kaneko was at the Asian Games in Djakarta in both styles, Greco-Roman. and free style, at the start and won both competitions. His toughest opponent was Mohamed Bashir from Pakistan both times .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, GR = Greco-Roman style, Le = lightweight, up to 1961 up to 67 kg, then up to 70 kg body weight, We = welter weight, up to 1961 up to 73 kg, thereafter up to 78 kg body weight)

  • 1957, 3rd place , III. Intern. Sports games in Moscow , F, We, behind M. Dadaschew, USSR a. Murtazow, Bulgaria ;
  • 1962, 1st place , Asian Games in Djakarta , GR, We, ahead of Mohamed Bashir, Pakistan a. Oh Tae-Jong, South Korea;
  • 1962, 1st place, Asian Games in Djakarta, F, We, ahead of Mohamed Bashir u. Chand Gandey Laksmi, India

swell

  • Athletics magazine from 1954 to 1962,
  • Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976
  • Website "www.sports123.com"

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personal data
SURNAME Kaneko, Yutaka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1933