Hideaki Tomiyama

Hideaki Tomiyama (Japanese富山 英明, Hideaki Tomiyama; born November 16, 1957 in Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a former Japanese wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1984 and a multiple world champion in free style bantamweight.

Career

Hideaki Tomiyama began in 1971 as a teenager in high school with the rings. He then attended the Nihon University, Chiyoda, Tokyo, where he took up sports studies. There he was heavily promoted in the exercise of Ringer sport. His coach was Tomiaki Tsukuda. He focused fully on the free style. At a size of 1.60 meters, he struggled throughout his career bantamweight, the weight category to 57 kg body weight.

His debut on the international wrestling mat he gave in 1978 at the Asian Games in Bangkok. He won there before Mohammad Azeem from Pakistan and Eim Eui- con from South Korea. In the same year he was in Mexico City for the first time world champion. He defeated among others, thereby the world-class wrestler Randy Lewis of the United States, Buzai Ibragimov from the Soviet Union, Dugarsurew Oinbold from Mongolia and Ivan Sotschew from Bulgaria.

In 1979 he repeated his World Cup success in San Diego. He was there with seven wins for the second time world champion. He defeated among others, Joe Corso from the United States and Sergei Beloglasow from the Soviet Union. It was very depressing for him that he could not participate in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow as a two -time world champion, because Japan boycotted these games for political reasons.

But with the World Cup 1981 in Skopje, he started again. In this World Cup for the first time a pool system was introduced, in which the two pool winners competed for the world title. Hideaki Tomiyama lost quite surprising in its pool against the Bulgarians Stefan Ivanov and was therefore in his pool only second. He therefore did not have the opportunity to fight against the other pool winner Sergei Beloglasow to the world title. But he fought his way to a victory over the other pool Second Seip Hosseine from Iran at least a bronze medal.

In 1982, Hideaki Tomiyama in New Delhi for the second time winner at the Asian Games. He won there before Askari Mohammedian from Iran and Ashok Kumar from India. At the World Championships this year in Edmonton he was pool champion and fought against Anatoly Beloglasow, the twin brother of Sergei Beloglasow to the world title. He was defeated in this fight on points and had to settle for the runners-up title content.

Also in the 1983 World Championship in Kiev was Hideaki Tomiyama again in the final. This time again against Sergei Beloglasow. In a tough battle he lost on points and was again runner-up world champion.

At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, he then had no serious competition to the Olympic victory, because the strong wrestler missing from the Eastern Bloc countries because of the " revenge Olympic boycott " in Los Angeles. He therefore won with five victories superior to the gold medal in front of Barry Davis from the United States.

After these Olympics Hideakit Tomiyama resigned as an active wrestler. He was first trainer for wrestling at Nihon University. Later he became head coach at this university and was awarded the title of professor. In addition, he was responsible for many years the Japanese wrestlers team in free style. From 2000 to 2007 he was the technical director in the Japanese Wrestling Federation. For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was taken in August 2008 in the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, Ba = bantamweight, to 57 kg body weight)