Akari Ogata Explained

Country:Japan
Weight Class:78 kg
Worlds Rank:2
Worlds Year:2011
Worlds Weight:Women's 78 kg
Regionals Type:AS
Regionals Rank:2
Regionals Year:2010
Regionals Weight:Women's 78 kg
Olympics Rank:R16
Olympics Year:2012
Olympics Weight:Women's 78 kg
Updated:17 July 2023

is a Japanese judoka.

Ogata started taking part in karate at the age of 7 and she became national junior karate champion when she was 10, but at age 13, she quit karate and started to practice judo.[1]

Ogata won a bronze medal in the half-heavyweight (78 kg) division at the 2010 World Judo Championships, and silver a year later.[2] She has also won silver at the 2010 Asian Games. Ogata had previously won the 2009 World Juniors Championships in that weight division.

Ogata's favorite techniques are uchimata, ōuchi gari and sankaku-jime.

She started her MMA career in 2022 with a fight in the Japanese MMA league Shooto, during which time she fought once and won by referee stoppage. After that she competed in a Shooto Colors grappling event and won by Kimura armlock. As of early 2024 she has been competing in ONE Championship.[3] Her standing in ONE Championship is 1 win by via TKO.

Ogata works as a Judo therapist.[4]

Mixed martial arts record

|-|Win|align=center|1–0|Khozhiniso Komoldinova|TKO (punches)|ONE Friday Fights 57||align=center|3|align=center|1:16|Bangkok, Thailand ||}

Notes and References

  1. Web site: スポ-ツの顔 78キロ級の新女王 緒方亜香里(体育1年) . 2011-10-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120425070109/http://www.sports.tsukuba.ac.jp/column/1-5.html . 2012-04-25 . dead .
  2. Web site: Akari Ogata, Judoka, JudoInside. www.judoinside.com. 2020-04-25.
  3. Web site: Tapology Akari Ogata . 2024-05-09.
  4. Web site: Akari . Ogata . Akari Ogata's Instagram . 2024-05-09.