Saori Yoshida


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Birth date
Age
05/10/1982 - TSU (JPN) 
30
Height
Weight
Gender
157 cm / 5'2" 
55 kg / 121 lbs 
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Sport
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RankEventYearLocation
Olympic Games
1Freestyle 55 kg2008Beijing, CHN
1Freestyle 55 kg2004Athens, GRE
World Championships
1Freestyle 55 kg2011Istanbul, TUR
1Freestyle 55 kg2010St. Petersburg, RUS
1Freestyle 55 kg2009Herning, DEN
1Freestyle 55 kg2008Tokyo, JPN
1Freestyle 55 kg2007Baku, AZE
1Freestyle 55 kg2006Guangzhou, CHN
1Freestyle 55 kg2005Budapest, HUN
1Freestyle 55 kg2003New York, NY, USA
1Freestyle 55 kg2002Chalkida, GRE
Asian Games
1Freestyle 55 kg2010Guangzhou, CHN
World Cup
2Freestyle 55 kg2012Tokyo, JPN

Hobbies

Singing karaoke songs. (FILA, 20 Jul 2008)

Occupation

Security Guard

Education

Chukyo University, Obu, JPN

Language(s) spoken

Japanese

Club name

ALSOK, Tokyo, JPN

Coach

Kazuhito Sakae (brecorder.com, 28 May 2012)

Other sports

Her father was a national wrestling champion in Japan. (jinjapan.org, 30 Oct 2003)

Additional information

Start of sporting career
She took up wrestling at age three. (joc.or.jp, 10 Oct 2006)

Reason for taking up this sport
Her father and brother wrestled, so it was a natural progression. (joc.or.jp, 10 Oct 2006)

Ambitions
To win her third consecutive Olympic gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. "All I have done will mean nothing if I don't achieve a three-peat in London," she said.

Training
She trains against men. (uk.eurosport.yahoo.com, 06 Jun 2012)

Most influential person in career
Her university coach and her parents. (Japan NOC, 2004)

Awards
She carried her country's flag at the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. (AGNS, 01 Dec 2006)

She was named 2007 Athlete of the Year at the Japan Sports Awards in Tokyo, becoming the first female wrestler to win the award. (Yomiuri Shimbun, 21 Dec 2007)

Previous Olympics

Beijing 2008, Athens 2004


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