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Yui Susaki (須崎 優衣, Susaki Yui, born 30 June 1999) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler. She won the gold medal in the women's 50 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics without conceding a single point.[1] She has not been beaten in a single bout since 2010, except for three losses to Yuki Irie in 2015, 2017 and 2019.[2] She has been coached by Shoko Yoshimura, five-time world champion, since she was 13 years old.[3]

Career

An exceptionally technical wrestler, in 2017, she won a gold medal at Paris World Wrestling Championships at 48 kg, and in 2018, she won gold at the Budapest World Wrestling Championships at 50 kg.[4][5] She won the gold medal in the women's 50 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.[6][7]

She competed at Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin 2017 and won a gold medal. In 2018, she won the gold medal in the women's 50 kg event at the Klippan Lady Open in Klippan, Sweden.[8] Susaki beat Maria Stadnik and in a rematch dominated the number 1 2021 Olympic seed 10–1, winning by technical fall. Although widely regarded as the best wrestler in the 50 kg class[9] Susaki entered the Tokyo games unseeded, where she went on to win gold.

On 5 July 2021, she was named flagbearer of the Japanese delegation to the Summer Olympics by the Japanese Olympic Committee, together with basketball player Rui Hachimura.[10]

Susaki also studies in the Sport science faculty at Waseda University.

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  2. ^ "SUSAKI Yui". UWW. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  3. ^ "須崎優衣の恩師・吉村祥子コーチは国際殿堂入りの軽量級最強女王「100点満点をあげたい」" [Yui Susaki's mentor, Coach Shoko Yoshimura was the strongest lightweight queen named to the International Hall of Fame "I would give her a perfect score of 100"]. Hochi Sports (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan. 7 August 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Susaki, Yui (JPN)". IAT leipzig. 24 August 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  5. ^ "3 Japanese win gold at wrestling c'ships". The Japan news. 25 August 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  6. ^ Burke, Patrick (14 September 2022). "Susaki and Morikawa earn Japanese double at World Wrestling Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  7. ^ "2022 World Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  8. ^ "Results Book" (PDF). 2018 Klippan Lady Open. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 August 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  9. ^ "2021 Tokyo Olympics: Women's 50kg Wrestling Gold Medal Odds Favor Japan's Yui Susaki on FanDuel Sportsbook". The Duel. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  10. ^ "Japan selects Rui Hachimura, Yui Susaki as flagbearers for Olympics". Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  11. ^ "東京スポーツ プロレス大賞（2010～）". Tokyo Sports (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 December 2017.
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