Saki Niizoe | |
Native Name: | 新添左季 |
Birth Date: | 1996 7, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Kashihara, Nara, Japan |
Country: | Japan |
Weight Class: | 70 kg |
Olympics Rank: | 7 |
Olympics Year: | 2024 |
Olympics Weight: | Women's 70 kg |
Worlds Rank: | 1 |
Worlds Year: | 2023 |
Worlds Weight: | Women's 70 kg |
Regionals Type: | AS |
Regionals Rank: | 1 |
Regionals Year: | 2018 |
Regionals Weight: | Women's 70 kg |
Regionals Year2: | 2024 |
Updated: | 5 August 2024 |
Saki Niizoe (born 4 July 1996)[1] [2] is a Japanese judoka. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 70kg event at the 2022 World Judo Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She won the gold medal in the women's 70kg event at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia.[2]
In 2017, she won two medals at the Summer Universiade held in Taipei, Taiwan.[3] In the same year, she won the gold medal in the mixed team event at the 2017 World Judo Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. She also won the gold medal in the mixed team event at the 2021 World Judo Championships, also held in Budapest, Hungary.
She won the silver medal in her event at the 2022 Judo Grand Slam Paris held in Paris, France. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 70kg event at the 2022 World Judo Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.