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Saori Yoshida
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1982-10-05 ) 5 October 1982 (age 43) , Tsu , Mie , Japan
- Alma mater
- Shigakkan University
- Height
- 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
- Weight
- 53 kg (117 lb)
- Sport
- Professional wrestling
- Event
- Freestyle
- Club
- High School Wrestling Club Hisai, Sogho Security Services , ALSOK Tokyo
- Coached by
- Masanori Ohashi, Shigeo Kinase , Kazuhito Sakae , Eikatsu Yoshida
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Tsu
- Position held
- rector
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Sport
- freestyle wrestling
- Country for sport
- Japan
- Mass
- 55
- Image
- Saori Yoshida and Kazuhito Sakae at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.jpg
- Height
- 1.57
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- date of birth
- 1982-10-05
- Commons category
- Saori Yoshida
- name in kana
- よしだ さおり
- name in native language
- 吉田沙保里
- social media followers
- 427104
- sports discipline competed in
- wrestling
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Encyclopedic overview
Saori Yoshida (吉田 沙保里, Yoshida Saori; born 5 October 1982) is a Japanese former freestyle wrestler. Starting in 1998, she won almost every major competition, including three Olympic Games, four Asian Games, and 13 world championships, becoming the most decorated athlete in freestyle wrestling history. As of 2016, Yoshida had only suffered three senior-career losses in international competitions, to Marcie Van Dusen (0–2) on 20 January 2008 at the Team World Cup series, Valeria Zholobova (1–2) on 27 May 2012 at the World Cup, and to Helen Maroulis (1–4) on 18 August 2016 at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Yoshida was the flagbearer for Japan at the 2006 Asian Games and at the 2012 Olympics. 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.
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