Shohachi Ishii Explained

Birth Date: September 20, 1926
Birth Place:Tokyo, Japan
Sport:Freestyle wrestling
Alma Mater:Chuo University
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was a Japanese freestyle wrestler who won a gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was the first Japanese gold medalist after World War II, the only Japanese gold medalist at the 1952 Olympics, and one of two Japanese medalists in wrestling at the 1952 Olympics, the other being flyweight Yushu Kitano, who won silver in freestyle.[1]

Ishii took up wrestling because there was no judo club around. He died of kidney cancer, aged 53.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Shohachi Ishii . 2019-10-08.
  2. Web site: 石井庄八-敗戦から7年…レスリング界の"求道僧"が快挙 . sanspo.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20070929100010/http://www.sanspo.com/beijing2008/history/gold/16.html . 2007-09-29 . ja.