Katsuhiko Nagata

Katsuhiko Nagata ( born October 31, 1973 in Togane, Chiba Prefecture) was a Japanese wrestler. He won at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, a silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in lightweight

Career

Katsuhiko Nagata came only at the age of 16 years in 1989 at the Seito High School in Chiba for rings. During his high school days he was able to achieve even more success. He then joined the Tokon Club of New Japan Pro Wrestling Chiba, where he was coached by his father Yuji Nagata. He wrestles exclusively in the Greco- Roman style, and reached a maximum in 1997, at the age of 24 years, the Japanese class the wrestler in this style. He is a company employee.

In 1997 he was a Japanese master at lightweight for the first time. This title he also won in 1998 and 2002, from 1998 to 2001 in the lightweight and welterweight in 2002. In 2003, he came on the 2nd place and 2004, 3rd place respectively in the welterweight division.

The international career of Katsuhiko Nagata began in 1997 with a 2nd place at lightweight at the East Asian Games in Pusan ​​behind Son Sang -pil, South Korea. In the same year he started then for the first time at a World Cup. But in Wrocław he came at lightweight after a defeat against Waghinak Galstjan, Armenia to victories over Andrei Nikiforov, Kazakhstan and Mattias Scho Berg, Sweden, then he lost to Mecnun Guler, Turkey, with which he retired and finished only 16th place.

Also at the 1998 World Championships in Gaevle / Sweden and 1999 in Athens he could not place it in the front of the field itself. In 1998, he came on the 23th Place and 1999 on the 30th place. At the Asian Games in Bangkok in 1998 he reached a 7th place in the lightweight.

Because of the then hugely elaborate qualification mode of the International Ringer Federation ( FILA ) for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney Katsuhiro Nagata had in the spring of 2000, four qualifying events in Faenza, Clermont- Ferrand, Tashkent and Colorado Springs contest, until he finally qualification had reached for the Sydney Games. Prior to these games, he was then in May 2000 in Seoul Asia champion at lightweight before Hadie Zeinvand, Iran and Zhang Xiling, China. In the Olympics, it then happiness stood to the side. In its pool were out of him yet Ruslan Biktjakow from Uzbekistan and Heath Sims from Canada. These three wrestlers defeated each other ( Nagata defeated Biktjakow and was defeated by Sims ). But the best points had Katsuhiko Nagata ratio, so the pool winner was. He was already in the semi-finals, where he defeated the Russians Alexei Glushkov. In the final he was defeated by Filiberto Ascuy Aguilera from Cuba and thus won the silver medal.

In 2001, he won then at the East Asian Games in Osaka before Choi Duk -hoon, South Korea and Saiyi Njiya from China and at the Asian Games in 2002 in Pusan ​​, he took the 5th place in the welterweight division. At the World Championships in 2001, 2002 and 2003, he finished only means courts. In 2004, he came at the Asian Championships in Alma- Ata in the welterweight division to 4th place and qualified for participation in the Olympic Games this year in Athens. In Athens, he lost both fights, which he denied and finished only 16th place. After he finished his career.

International success

Japanese Championships

Notes

• All competitions in Greco-Roman wrestling
• OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup
• Lightweight until 2001-69 kg welterweight since 2002-74 kg body weight

Swell

• Journal The Ringer
• Website " Foeldeak Wrestling Database "
• Website "www -japan - wrestling.org "