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Saori Yoshida

Japanese freestyle wrestler

Field	Value
name	Saori Yoshida
image	Saori Yoshida (cropped).jpg
caption	Saori Yoshida with her coach Kazuhito Sakae after winning the 2008 Olympic gold
birth_date
birth_place	Tsu, Mie, Japan
alma_mater	Shigakkan University
height
weight	53 kg
sport	Professional wrestling
event	Freestyle
club	High School Wrestling Club Hisai
Sogho Security Services
ALSOK Tokyo
coach	Masanori Ohashi
Shigeo Kinase

Sogho Security Services ALSOK Tokyo Shigeo Kinase

Saori Yoshida is a Japanese former freestyle wrestler. Starting in 1998, she won almost every major competition,

Yoshida was the flagbearer for Japan at the 2006 Asian Games In 2007, she became the first female wrestler to be named Japanese Athlete of the Year, and in 2012 she received the People's Honour Award.

Weight

Yoshida started competing internationally as a cadet, in 1998, in the 52 kg category. By 2002, when she moved to seniors, she competed in the 59 kg division. The same year, she lost 4 kg, and remained in the 55 kg category until 2014. She moved to the 53 kg class at the 2014 World Cup and World Championships as part of her preparation for the 2016 Olympics, where the traditional 48–55–63–75 kg scheme would be changed to 48–53–58–63–69–75 kg. However, two weeks after the World Championships she returned to the 55 kg category at the 2014 Asian Games, which kept the old weight divisions. Yoshida announced her retirement on Twitter in January 2019.

Family and public life

Yoshida is the daughter of Eikatsu Yoshida, a former national champion and wrestling coach. Since 2011, she has been a face of the ALSOK security group and regularly appears in their commercials.

In December 2008, the wrestling singlet which Yoshida wore in the Olympic final bout earlier that year, was sold for 551,000 yen (ca. US$6,123) at an internet auction, and the money donated to the Japanese Red Cross society.

In 2013, when the International Olympic Committee named wrestling as a candidate for exclusion from the Games, she became an active part of the Japanese lobbying team that persuaded the IOC to retain wrestling at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

In May 2014, Yoshida made a cameo appearance in the Japanese television drama Tokyo Metropolitan Guard Center, and later wished to resume acting after retiring from wrestling.

Olympic Games/World Championship/Asian Games matches

References

"YOSHIDA Saori". incheon2014ag.org.
"Saori Yoshida". sports-reference.com.
(2008). "To Our Friends in Wrestling Around the world". japan-wrestling.org.
Odeven, Ed. (May 31, 2012). "Yoshida returns focus to Olympic three-peat after rare defeat". [[The Japan Times]].
[http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2014/09/12/more-sports/yoshida-icho-extend-dominance/#.VCjmhiimH-E Yoshida, Icho extend dominance]. japantimes.co.jp. September 12, 2014
[http://corporate.olympics.com.au/files/dmfile/Rio2016QualificationSystem-Wrestling.pdf Qualification System – Games of the XXXI Olympiad – Rio 2016]. FILA
[https://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbfoeldeak/daten.php?spid=03DC0277598941BDBC3228FB2E080255 Yoshida, Saori (JPN)]. iat.uni-leipzig.de
Diamond, James. (9 January 2019). "Thirteen-time UWW world champion and triple Olympic gold medallist Yoshida retires". inside the games.
[http://www.aipsmedia.com/index.php?page=news&cod=13330&tp=n#.VCjuYSimH-E Japan Blanks Russia for Women's World Cup Crown]. aipsmedia.com
[http://brand.gamania.com/gvoice/vol52/en/columns/52_ad.htm ALSOK Commercial Song]. G!VOICE, Vol. 52, September 2012.
Iwamoto, Shintaro (September 20, 2013) [http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/sports/AJ201309200064 WRESTLING/ Yoshida captures 11th straight world championship] {{webarchive. link. (September 29, 2014 . ajw.asahi.com.)
"東京スポーツプロレス大賞：選考経過（2000～2009）". [[Tokyo Sports]].
"東京スポーツプロレス大賞（2010～）". [[Tokyo Sports]].

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