Yuka Kagami Explained

Yuka Kagami
Birth Date:2001 9, df=yes
Country:Japan
Sport:Amateur wrestling
Weight Class:76 kg
Event:Freestyle

Yuka Kagami (born 14 September 2001) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler. She won the gold medal in the women's 76kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. In 2023, she won the gold medal in her event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia. She is a two-time medalist, including gold, at the Asian Wrestling Championships.

Career

Kagami won the bronze medal in the girls' freestyle 73kg event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[1]

In 2019, at the Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, she won the silver medal in the women's 72kg event.[2] In that same year, she also won the gold medal in the women's 72kg event at the 2019 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Xi'an, China.[3] [4] At the 2019 World U23 Wrestling Championship held in Budapest, Hungary she won the silver medal in the 76kg event.[5] [6]

Kagami won the silver medal in her event at the 2022 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.[7] [8] She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 76kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.[9] [10]

In 2023, Kagami won the gold medal in the women's 76kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.[11] [12] She defeated Aiperi Medet Kyzy of Kyrgyzstan in her gold medal match.[11] [12] She also earned a quota place for Japan for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[13] Kagami won the gold medal in the women's 76kg event at the Olympics.[14] [15] She defeated Kennedy Blades of the United States in her gold medal match.[14] [15]

Achievements

YearTournamentLocationResultEvent
2019Asian ChampionshipsXi'an, China1stFreestyle 72kg
2022Asian ChampionshipsUlaanbaatar, Mongolia2ndFreestyle 76kg
World ChampionshipsBelgrade, Serbia3rdFreestyle 76kg
2023World ChampionshipsBelgrade, Serbia1stFreestyle 76kg
2024Summer OlympicsParis, France1stFreestyle 76kg

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Women's Freestyle 73 kg Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20181014164932/https://www.buenosaires2018.com/results/resYOG2018/pdf/YOG2018/WRE/YOG2018_WRE_C75_WREWFS73KG------------------------.pdf . 14 October 2018 . 11 August 2024 . 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.
  2. News: 27 January 2019. U.S. Wrestlers Win Five Medals, Two Gold, At Ivan Yarygin Memorial International. Team USA. https://web.archive.org/web/20201021023639/https://www.teamusa.org/News/2019/January/27/US-Wrestlers-Win-Five-Medals-Two-Gold-At-Ivan-Yarygin-Memorial-International. October 21, 2020. dead. 21 May 2020.
  3. Web site: 2019 Asian Wrestling Championships Results. United World Wrestling. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200518232029/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/results_04_xian.pdf. 18 May 2020.
  4. News: 28 April 2019. 2019 Asian Wrestling Championships Medalists (Collated). China.org.cn. 20 May 2020.
  5. News: Morgan. Liam. Japan win three gold medals in women's freestyle at UWW Under-23 World Championships. 31 October 2019. InsideTheGames.biz. 11 April 2020.
  6. Web site: 2019 World U23 Wrestling Championship. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20191228051956/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/u23_senior_world_championships_final-book.pdf. 28 December 2019. 8 August 2020. United World Wrestling.
  7. News: Houston . Michael . 21 April 2022 . World champion Yoshimito among winners of Asian Wrestling Championships . . 21 April 2022.
  8. Web site: 2022 Asian Wrestling Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220424143847/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-04/final-book-senior_asian_championships.pdf?VersionId=YJDMAXt2PzJwnVKPBf.3kNiMafH6p8ll . 24 April 2022 . 24 April 2022 . United World Wrestling.
  9. News: Burke . Patrick . 14 September 2022 . Susaki and Morikawa earn Japanese double at World Wrestling Championships . InsideTheGames.biz . 15 September 2022.
  10. Web site: 2022 World Wrestling Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220918183512/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-09/final-book-2022-senior-world-championships_compressed.pdf?VersionId=zoTz_Ra8zK5EkVhfrZuDG5THXf4.3ik. . 18 September 2022 . 18 September 2022 . United World Wrestling.
  11. News: Burke . Patrick . 20 September 2023 . Japan enjoy clean sweep of women's freestyle golds on day five of World Wrestling Championships . InsideTheGames.biz . 22 September 2023.
  12. Web site: 2023 World Wrestling Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20231104205225/https://d3u2kdyvfaxwhl.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/2023-09/final-book-2023-senior_world_championships_and_og_qualif.pdf?VersionId=Vw6R1se4WK.11kPw_YnsfzZdbwCSiIiI . 4 November 2023 . 4 November 2023 . United World Wrestling.
  13. Web site: Qualification System – Games of the XXXIII Olympiad – Paris 2024 – Wrestling . https://web.archive.org/web/20240113060500/https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Paris-2024/Paris2024-QS-Wrestling.pdf . 13 January 2024 . 11 April 2024 . United World Wrestling.
  14. News: Khalatyan . Rafael . 11 August 2024 . Wrestling: Two golds for Japan, one for Tazhudinov . 12 August 2024 . InsideTheGames.biz.
  15. Web site: Wrestling Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20240811181048/https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WRE/OG2024_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf . 11 August 2024 . 12 August 2024 . 2024 Summer Olympics.

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