Kyoko Hamaguchi
Encyclopedia
is a Japan
ese freestyle wrestler
. She has won five FILA Wrestling World Championships
and two Olympic
Bronze medals in the 72 kg weight class.
She is sponsored by Japan Beverage Inc. and was nominated by the Japanese Olympic Committee
's Special Athlete Campaign.
Her father is professional wrestler Animal Hamaguchi, who is known for his emotional displays during Kyoko's matches. Although Kyoko has long wanted to follow in her father's footsteps and enter the professional game, the lack of a stable women's circuit since the collapse of All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
has kept her from doing so.
while in junior high school. At the age of fourteen, she decided that she wanted to be a female professional wrestler and trained in the Animal Hamaguchi's Wrestling Dojo.
She has won the Japan Championship every year from 1996 to 2006, and has won the World Championships five times. In both the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the 72 kg class. She was also a flag bearer for the Japanese team in the opening Olympic ceremonies in 2004.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese freestyle wrestler
Freestyle wrestling
Freestyle wrestling is a style of amateur wrestling that is practised throughout the world. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic games. It is, along with track and field, one of the oldest organized sports in history...
. She has won five FILA Wrestling World Championships
FILA Wrestling World Championships
FILA Wrestling World Championships is the Amateur Wrestling World Championship organized by the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles . The men's Greco-Roman tournament began in 1904...
and two Olympic
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
Bronze medals in the 72 kg weight class.
She is sponsored by Japan Beverage Inc. and was nominated by the Japanese Olympic Committee
Japanese Olympic Committee
The Japanese Olympic Committee is the national Olympic committee in Japan for the Olympic Games movement, based in Tokyo, Japan...
's Special Athlete Campaign.
Her father is professional wrestler Animal Hamaguchi, who is known for his emotional displays during Kyoko's matches. Although Kyoko has long wanted to follow in her father's footsteps and enter the professional game, the lack of a stable women's circuit since the collapse of All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
, nicknamed Zenjo was a joshi puroresu promotion established in 1968 by Takashi Matsunaga and his brothers. The group held their first card on June 4 of that year...
has kept her from doing so.
Profile
She swamSwimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
while in junior high school. At the age of fourteen, she decided that she wanted to be a female professional wrestler and trained in the Animal Hamaguchi's Wrestling Dojo.
She has won the Japan Championship every year from 1996 to 2006, and has won the World Championships five times. In both the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the 72 kg class. She was also a flag bearer for the Japanese team in the opening Olympic ceremonies in 2004.
Results
- 1996 - win - Japan Championship (70 kg)
- 1997 - win - Japan Championship (70 kg)
- 1997 - win - World Championship (75 kg)
- 1998 - win - Japan Championship (75 kg)
- 1998 - win - World Championship (75 kg)
- 1998 - FILA's female wrestler of the year
- 1999 - win - Japan Championship (75 kg)
- 1999 - win - World Championship (75 kg)
- 2000 - win - Japan Championship (75 kg)
- 2001 - win - Japan Championship (75 kg)
- 2001 - win - East Asia Competition
- 2002 - win - Japan Championship (72 kg)
- 2002 - win - World Championship (72 kg)
- 2002 - win - Asian Games at Busan2002 Asian GamesThe 2002 Asian Games, also known as XIV Asiad is a multi-sport event held in Busan, South Korea from September 29 to October 14, 2002. Busan is the second city, after Seoul in 1986 to host the Games. A total of 419 events in 38 sports were contested by 7,711 athletes from 44 countries...
(72 kg) - 2003 - win - Japan Championship (72 kg)
- 2003 - win - World Championship (72 kg)
- 2004 - 2nd - Testing Competition for Athens Olympics (72 kg)
- 2004 - 3rd - Athens Olympics2004 Summer OlympicsThe 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...
(72 kg) - 2004 - win - Japan Championship (72 kg)
- 2005 - 2nd - World Championship (72 kg)
- 2005 - win - Japan Championship (72 kg) (winning for 10 years), MVP
- 2006 - win - Japan Queen's Cup (72 kg)
- 2006 - 2nd - World Cup (72 kg)
- 2006 - 2nd - Asian Games2006 Asian GamesThe 15th Asian Games, officially known as the XV Asiad, is Asia's Olympic-style sporting event that was held in Doha, Qatar from December 1 to December 15, 2006. Doha was the first city in its region and only the second in West Asia to host the games...
(72 kg) - 2007 - 2nd - Asia Championship (72 kg)
- 2008 - 2nd - Asia Championship (72 kg)
- 2008 - 3rd - Beijing Olympics2008 Summer OlympicsThe 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...
(72 kg)