Ken’ichi Yumoto
Ken'ichi Yumoto (Japanese汤 元 健 一, Yumoto Ken'ichi, born December 4, 1984 in Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture) is a Japanese wrestler. He won a bronze medal in free style at featherweight at the 2008 Olympic Games.
Career
Ken'ichi Yumoto started together with his twin brother Shin'ichi Yumoto the Sport Club Wakayama Kogyo with the rings, both focus on the free style. Trainer was there Takumi Adachi. Due to its success in the national junior level Ken'ichi Yumoto came into the Japanese national team freestyle wrestler at the age of 20 years. His coaches were or are there Masakazu Hijikata, Yu Sugiyama and Takahira Wada. At the same time he also took up studies at the Nippon Sport Science University and began show for the sports club. In the meantime, he is also coach at this university.
His international career began in Ringer in 2001. He started here at the Asian Junior Championship ( Juniors) in Tehran and came bantamweight on the 4th Place.
In 2002, Ken'ichi Yumoto occupied the first place in the national school championship at featherweight. In 2004, he won with a 3rd place its first medal at the Japanese Championship of seniors. In the semifinals, he had to deal defeated Takafumi Kojima. In 2004 he also started again at the Asian Junior Championship ( Juniors) and won featherweight behind Mohammed Reza Ashouri from Iran and Kazakhstan Talgat Saischenow from the bronze medal.
After the beginning of 2005, the medal winners had resigned from the 2004 Olympics in the featherweight Kenji Inoue, Ken'ichi Yumoto got the chance to determine the starters for the 2005 World Championships in Tokyo in an eliminator against Noriyuki Takatsuka. He won that fight and started therefore at the World Championships in Budapest in featherweight. Of course, he had to pay there still " learning the hard way ", because with a defeat against Yandro Quintana of Cuba, a win over Tevfik Odabasi from Turkey and a defeat against Ojuunbilegiin Pürewbaatar from Mongolia, he came only to 13th place.
In December 2005, then he managed to be with a win over Noriyuki Takatsuka first Japanese champion in the senior featherweight. In June 2006, he was defeated by Takatsuka but, when it came to who should represent Japan at the World Cup in 2006 and in January 2007 won Ken'ichi Yumoto at the Japanese championship of the year 2006 (!) On Kenji Inoue, who had made a comeback, on points and so was the second time a Japanese master. But with the 2007 World Championships in Baku, he lost his first fight against equal Samat Shapukow from Kazakhstan, with which he retired and finished only 22nd place.
In December 2007, Ken'ichi Yumoto lost the final of the Japanese Featherweight Championship against his eternal rival Noriyuki Takatsuka, boosting his chances of an Olympic participation in Beijing were not the best. Takatsuka occupied but the first Olympic Qualif. tournament in Martigny / Switzerland featherweight only the 13th Place. At the second Olympic qualification tournament in Warsaw in 2008, therefore, Ken'ichi Yumoto was sent at the start. In this tournament, then came the big international breakthrough for him because he won there over Ganzoring Mandakhnaram from Mongolia, George Bucur from Romania, Andrei Perpelita from Moldova, Jo Tong Hyok from North Korea and Kim Jong -dae of South Korea, finished 1st place and won with it the right to start for Japan at the Beijing Games. But before he was able to go to the start, he had yet to compete in Tokyo in the official Japanese Olympic excretion against Noriyuki Takatsuka on 25 June 2008. He won that fight, and thus the Japanese launch site in Beijing.
In Beijing, Ken'ichi Yumoto convinced. He won there over Vitaly Korjakin from Tajikistan and Yogeshwar Dutt of India, but was defeated in the semifinals against Vasyl Fedoryschyn from Ukraine. But he fought his way to a victory over Bazar Bazargurujew from Kyrgyzstan an Olympic bronze medal.
His first start after the 2008 Olympics, he graduated in August 2009 at the National Sports Festival in Niigata. He won there in the featherweight with a win in the final over Keiji Matsumoto of Nagasaki. In December 2009, he reached the Japanese Featherweight Championship Hiroyuki Oda behind and Noriyuki Takatsuka only the 3rd place. For this reason he also came at the international championships in 2009 to no use. In December 2010, but was again Japanese master before Niriyuki Takatsuka and Hiroyuki Oda. He was then employed at the World Championships this year in Istanbul and fought there with victories over Vladimir Dubov, Bulgaria and Wassyl Fedoryschyn, Ukraine, a defeat against Besik Kuduchow, Russia and wins over Wilfredo Henriquez Hernandez, Venezuela and Didier Pais, France, a World Cup bronze medal.
In April 2012 he defeated the Japanese champion of 2011 Shogo Maeda in Japanese Olympic excretion and thus secured the starting place at the Olympic Games in London. In London, he triumphed over Yowlys Bonne Rodriguez, Cuba, then lost to Togrul Asgarow from Azerbaijan and could since this Olympic champion, was further wrestle in the consolation round. In this he defeated first Tim Schleicher of Germany, but lost the battle for an Olympic bronze medal against Scott Coleman from the United States and thus came to 5th place.
International success
National success
Notes
- All competitions in free style
- OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup
- Featherweight weight class up to 60 kg body weight
Swell
- Journal The Ringer
- Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig
- Site of the Japanese wrestler Association (english)