Seiko Yamamoto

Seiko Yamamoto (山 本 圣 子jap, Seiko Yamamoto, born August 22, 1980 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese wrestler. It was 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2003 world champion in the weight class up to 51 kg, 56 kg and 59 kg body weight.

Career

Seiko Yamamoto began at the age of five years in 1985 with the rings. She comes from a family Ringer and her first coach was her father, Ikuei Yamamoto. She attended Nihon University and is a member of the wrestling team at the University (English Nihon University Wrestling Club ). In the National Team was coached by Hideaki Tomiyama and Kazuhito Sakae.

The first international successes achieved Seiko Yamamoto in 1997. She was then on the international wrestling mat until 2006 active. In 2006 she resigned from the international Matt Done and married the Japanese national handball player Hideaki Nagashima. Since then she called Seiko Nagashima. In it 2007wurde mother of a son. Since 2006 she has operated for several Japanese television networks as a commentator on Ringer competitions. In 2008, she also talked about the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing from rings. It was packed this from happening on the wrestling mat so that was a comeback undertook and since then actively struggling.

In 1997, Seiko Yamamoto in Taipai Asia champion in the weight category to 51 kg. That was the beginning of their international career. 1999 and 2000, she was in Bucharest or in Nantes junior world champion in the weight class up to 54 kg. In 1999 she was also the first Japanese champion and competed at the World Championships for Women in Hildursborg / Sweden in the weight category to 51 kg. She got there with five wins in a superior style of their first world title. In the decisive battles they defeated this welcoming of Gao from China and Erica Sharp from Canada.

In 2000, she was again at the World Championships in Sofia title holder, but this time in the weight category to 56 kg. In the final, she defeated Tetyana Lazareva here from the Ukraine. In 2001, then followed at the World Championships, which took place again in Sofia, her third title. With Erin Tomeo, USA, Sun Dongmei, China, Konstantina Katerina Tsibanakou, Greece, Lee Na - lae, South Korea and Lyubov Mikhailovna Wolossowa, Russia, she had this to defeat five heavy opponents.

In 2002, a weight class reform was carried out by the International Wrestling Federation. In place of the weight category up to 56 kg occurred one to 55 kg body weight. In this weight class Seiko Yamamoto an invincible rival was now in Japan Saori Yoshida grown up, who represented Japan in this weight class also at the World Championships in 2002. Seiko Yamamoto in 2002 in Edmonton universities world champion in the weight class up to 55 kg.

2003 Seiko Yamamoto lost in the finals of the Japanese championship in the weight class up to 55 kg against Saori Yoshida. She was then employed at the World Championships this year in New York in the weight class up to 59 kg and won in this weight class for the fourth time the world title. In the decisive battles they defeated while Marianna Sastin from Hungary and Natalia Ivashko from Russia. In 2004, then found in the weight class up to 48 kg instead of 55 kg, 63 kg and 72 kg Ringer competitions at the Olympic Games. Seiko Yamamoto did not take part in it.

The last major success before her retirement she succeeded at the Asian Championships in 2006 in Alma -Ata. She won there in the weight category up to 59 kg before Su Lihui, China and Su Ying- Tsu from Taiwan.

After her comeback in 2008, she took in the years 2009, 2010 and 2011 at the Japanese championships and indeed in the weight class up to 63 kg. In all three Championships, she won medals with a 3rd, a 2nd and a 3rd place again. But she was not able to defeat the this weight class for years dominating Olympic champion Kaori Icho. A Home at the 2012 Olympic Games in London will therefore be virtually impossible for them.

International success

Japanese Championships

Notes

  • All competitions in free style
  • WM = World Cup

Swell

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