Jiichiro Date

Jiichirō Date (Japanese伊达 治 一郎, Date Jiichirō; born January 6, 1952 in the prefecture of Oita, Japan) is a former Japanese wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1976 in free style at welterweight.

Career

Jiichirō Date, about the origin and development of his sporting gear, nothing is known, appeared in the first half of the 1970s with three international Ringer's events, of which he won in two. He wrestled in free style welterweight weight class, which then had their weight limit at 74 kg.

In 1973 he started with 21 years at the World Cup in Toledo ( Ohio) and won there before Ruslan Nuralijewitsch Aschuralijew from the USSR and Stanley Dziedzic from the United States, two wrestlers, who belonged to the absolute world class.

His next start was then made at the World Championships 1975 in Minsk. He won there over such a strong wrestler like Carl Adams from the United States, Dan Karabin from Czechoslovakia and Kiro Ristow from Yugoslavia, but had to Mansour Barzegar from Iran after 1:17 minutes fighting time and Ruslan Aschuraljiew after 8: let shoulders 21 minutes fighting time and got away with it to 3rd place.

At the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 he was further improved and was there with seven wins in superior style Olympic champion. He celebrated shoulder victories over Dennis Herrick from Puerto Rico to 1:17 battle time Zevegin Duvchin from Mongolia to 1:39, Fred Hempel from the GDR to 7:03, Yo Yee -Kwon from South Korea to 2:13, Marin Pârcălabu from Romania to 4:06 and world champion Mansour Barzegar after 6:07 minutes. Only against the Americans Stanley Dziedzic he had to fight over the full period of the then 9 minutes walk and defeated it with 10:5 points. In the journal, the wrestler, No. 7/ 8 from 1976, 12 puts it succinctly: " Jiichiro date was by far the best wrestler of the Olympic tournament. "

After this victory Jiichirō date was in any international championship more at the start. He became a coach and worked at various martial arts schools in Japan. From 1991, he oversaw the sumo wrestler Musashimaru and attributed this to the yokozuna, the highest rank awarded in sumo.

International success

Swell

  • Journal The wrestler, spending 0/ 1975 and 7/7/1976,
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig

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Profile of Jiichirō Date at the Institute for Applied Training Science

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