Hitomi Obara

Hitomi Obara (Japanese小原日登美, Hitomi Obara; born Sakamoto (Jap.坂本日登美), born January 4, 1981 in Hachinohe ) is a Japanese wrestler. She won 2001-2011 eight times the world championship in the class up to 51 kg body weight and at the Olympic Games 2012 in London gold in the class to 48 kg.

Career

Hitomi Obara struggling since 1989. She is captain of the Japanese ground Self-Defense Forces and starts for the Jieitai Taiiku Gakko (Japanese, the " Sports School of the Self-Defense Forces, " engl. Japan Self Defense Forces Physical Training School) in Nerima (Tokyo). Your trainer since 2002, Kenji Fujikawa, who is supported by national coach Kazuhito Sakae. In September 2011, she married and took the last name Obara.

In the junior age Hitomi Obara came not in evidence at the international championships. Your first start in an international championship she graduated in 2000, when she in Seoul in the weight class up to 51 kg, the weight class in which they went up to the year to launch in 2008, Asia - champion before Yin Min, China, and Chang Wen- Hsia, Taiwan, was. In the same year she also launched for the first time at the World Championships in Sofia and won her first world title in front of Patricia Miranda from the United States and Ida Hellström from Sweden there.

In 2001 she became world champion in Sofia again. She defeated while Ida Hellström, Alena Ivanovna Kareicha, Belarus, Vanessa Boubryemm, France, Gao Yanzhi, China and Stephanie Murata from the United States.

In the years 2002 and 2003 Hitomi Obara could not participate in international championships since it was replaced in Japan by Chiharu Icho as No. 1 in their weight class. 2004, it also did not succeed to qualify for the Olympic Games in Athens. She had to work off in the weight category up to 48 kg, because the weight class up to 51 kg was not olympic. Chiharu Icho did but the same, defeating Obara at the Japanese Olympic excretion.

After the 2004 Olympics Chiharu Icho remained in the weight class up to 48 kg. Hitomi Obara could therefore go in the weight class up to 51 kg at the start at the international championships again. In 2005 she was in Wuhan again immediately Asian champion and in Budapest, she won her third world title. In the final, she defeated while Vanessa Boubryemm from France.

In the years 2006, 2007 and 2008, then repeated each in the weight category up to 51 kg of victories in the World Championships. In 2006, she won in Guangzhou before Lyndsay Belisle in Canada, 2007 in Baku before Ren Xuecheng from China and 2008 in Tokyo Marjana Markowitsch from Belarus. For the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing she could in the weight class up to 48 kg again not qualify. They again failed to Chiharu Icho.

After a year's break (2009) and after the resignation of Chiharu Icho in 2008 Hitomi Obara starts since 2010 in the weight class up to 48 kg. In this weight class then won her seventh world title at the World Cup 2010 in Moscow. In the decisive battles they defeated while the Olympic champion Carol Huynh of Canada in 2008; this was the final Chiharu Icho, Iwona Matkowska from Poland and Lorissa Oorsak defeated there from Russia.

2011 referred Hitomi Obara at the Japanese Championships Junior World Champion Eri Tosaka to 2nd place and won at the World Championships in Istanbul with wins over Lenka Matejewa, Slovakia, Henriette Slattum, Norway, Carol Huynh, Zhao Shasha, China, and Maria Stadnik, Azerbaijan, the eighth world title. Against Maria Stadnik they won 2-1 rounds ( 2:3, 1:0, 1:0 points).

At the Olympic Games in London in 2012, she won for the first time in her long career, deserved the gold medal in the class to 48 kg. Towards this medal defeating Maroi Mezien from Tunisia, Isabella Sambou from Senegal, Carol Huynh and Maria Stadnik.

International success

Notes

All competitions in free style
WM = World Cup

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