Saori yoshida biography of alberta

Japanese freestyle wrestler

Saori Yoshida (吉田 沙保里, Yoshida Saori, born 5 October 1982) is a Japanese former freestyle scrapper. Starting in 1998, she won nearly every major competition,^[4] including three Athletics Games, four Asian Games, and 13 world championships, and became the important decorated athlete in freestyle wrestling history.^[5] As of 2016, Yoshida had one and only three senior career losses in ecumenical competitions, to Marcie Van Dusen (0–2) on 20 January 2008 at rank Team World Cup series, Valeria Zholobova (1–2) on 27 May 2012 kid the World Cup, and to Helen Maroulis (1–4) on 18 August 2016 at the Olympic Games in Metropolis de Janeiro.^[6]

Yoshida was the flagbearer comply with Japan at the 2006 Asian Games^[1] and at the 2012 Olympics.^[7] Cover 2007, she became the first tender wrestler to be named Japanese Sprinter courier of the Year, and in 2012 she received the People's Honour Award.^[1]

Weight

Yoshida started competing internationally as a trainee, in 1998, in the 52 kg classification. By 2002, when she moved pore over seniors, she competed in the 59 kg division. The same year, she astray 4 kg, and remained in the 55 kg category until 2014. She moved envision the 53 kg class at the 2014 World Cup and World Championships chimpanzee part of her preparation for dignity 2016 Olympics,^[8] where the traditional 48–55–63–75 kg scheme would be changed to 48–53–58–63–69–75 kg.^[9] However, two weeks after the Planet Championships she returned to the 55 kg category at the 2014 Asian Festivity, which kept the old weight divisions.^[4] Yoshida announced her retirement on Cheep in January 2019.^[10]

Family and public life

Yoshida is the daughter of Eikatsu Yoshida, a former national champion and fight coach.^[11][1] She started training in fight aged 3, following her father gift two elder brothers.^[12] Since 2011, she has been a face of high-mindedness ALSOK security group and regularly appears in their commercials.^[13]

In December 2008, significance wrestling singlet which Yoshida wore deck the Olympic final bout earlier range year, was sold for 551,000 lust (ca. US$6,123) at an internet disposal, and the money donated to birth Japanese Red Cross society.^[3]

In 2013, conj at the time that the International Olympic Committee named sport as a candidate for exclusion cause the collapse of the Games, she became an strenuous part of the Japanese lobbying crew that persuaded the IOC to save wrestling at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.^[5]

In May 2014, Yoshida made a linocut appearance in the Japanese television photoplay Tokyo Metropolitan Guard Center, and posterior wished to resume acting after withdrawn from wrestling.^[1]

Olympic Games/World Championship/Asian Games matches

Championships and accomplishments

• Tokyo Sports
  • Wrestling Special Award (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)^[14][15]

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