Birth Place: | Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan |
Alma Mater: | Tsukuba University |
Country: | Japan |
Weight Class: | 48 kg |
Dan: | 4 |
Worlds Rank: | 1 |
Worlds Year: | 2009 |
Regionals Type: | AS |
Regionals Rank: | 1 |
Regionals Year: | 2005 |
Olympics Rank: | 5 |
Olympics Year: | 2012 |
Olympics Weight: | Women's 48 kg |
Updated: | 17 July 2023 |
is a Japanese judoka from Tsukuba University. She competed for Japan at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Fukumi is a 4th dan in judo. She is the only judoka to have beaten Ryoko Tani twice. Later she won the gold medal in the extra-lightweight (48 kg) division at the 2009 World Judo Championships. She is known for her seoinage, kouchigari, and newaza. In 2014, Fukumi took a year off to study abroad at Loughborough University.