Kosei Akaishi
Kosei Akaishi (Japanese赤石 光 生, Kosei Akaishi, born February 26, 1965) is a former Japanese wrestler. He was winner of the silver medal at the 1984 Olympics in free style at featherweight and the bronze medal at the 1992 Olympics in free style at lightweight.
Career
Akaishi began as a teenager in high school with the wrestling and was trained at Nihon University in Tokyo, he attended high school at the time in connection with an outstanding freestyle wrestler. It is common in Japan that the top wrestlers are all sponsored either by the universities or by the Japanese Self Defense Forces.
Akaishi reached international stature at 16 years. He proved this by a victory at the Asian Junior Championships in the weight class up to 60 kg body weight in 1981. 1984 he became the Japanese Wrestling Federation to the Olympic Games to Los Angeles posted. There he struggled with four wins in the finals, but he lost to Randy Lewis of the United States on points. In one of his first round fights he had lost the way against Martin Herbster from the Federal Republic of Germany on points. This defeat had, however, for him not negative, since he won his fights all remaining qualifiers, while Martin Herbster excluded prematurely.
In the years 1985 and 1986, he failed to qualify for participation in the World Championships themselves. He was defeated in two years against Kazuhito Sakae. Only in 1987 he was able to re- qualify for the World Cup participation. In Clermont- Ferrand, he started it for the first time at lightweight. He was defeated in his pool final against the superior arsenic Fadsajew from the Soviet Union, but got as Pool Second chance against Andre Metzger from the United States to compete for the bronze medal. But this fight he also lost on points and had to settle for 4th place.
The unrewarding fourth place went to Akaishi also at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. The fight for the bronze medal in the lightweight he lost again against a U.S. citizen, Nate Carr.
At the World Championships in 1989 in Martigny / Switzerland he was again successful. He reached the final of the lightweight, but this was defeated in the Soviet athletes Boris Budajew and was runner-up. In 1990 in Tokyo and 1991 in Varna, he won no medals at the World Championships. In domestic Tokyo, he fought against Cuban Rodriguez again for the bronze medal, but lost. In Varna, he lost the same in the 1st round against the German champion Georg Swabia 0-1 points, reaching only the 8th Place.
At the conclusion of his very successful career Akaishi then won again an Olympic medal, a bronze at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. The way to a gold medal once built him more arsenic Fadsajew. In the battle for the bronze medal he defeated the Iranians Ali Akbar Nejad on points.
Akaishi also took part in a total of four times at the Asian Games and Asian Championships at. The best results he achieved this in 1986 and 1989 respectively second places at lightweight.
Akaishi finished in 1993 his international career Ringer and completed a sports studies. Since 1995 he has been coach of the Japanese national team freestyle wrestler. It is particularly noteworthy that he in Afghanistan, the local wrestlers who can pursue their sport only since the fall of the Taliban government again in stays of several weeks in Kabul preparing for the Asian Games in Busan and at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2002 and 2004.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = free style, Fe = Featherweight, Lightweight = Le, then to 62 kg or 68 kg body weight)
Swell
- Journal The wrestler, numbers: 9/ 1984, 13, 9/ 1987, page 10, 10/ 1988, pp. 10-12, 9/ 1989, pages 10, 10 /1990 page 4, 10/ 1991, 10 u. 9/1992, page 15
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig
- Website " japan wrestling"