Shigeru Kasahara

Shigeru Kasahara (Japanese笠原 茂, Shigeru Kasahara, born June 11, 1933) is a former Japanese wrestler and silver medalist at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne in free style at lightweight.

Life

In Shigeru Kasahara Japan possessed the mid-1950s alongside Shozo Sasahara a second world-class wrestler in the featherweight class in free style. Kasahara attended Meiji University. Kasahara and Sasahara always went at championships out of the way and also trained not together.

1954, the year in which Sasahara in Tokyo became world champion at featherweight, Kasahara was used in the Asian Games in Manila at featherweight. He won this tournament in superior style.

At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 Shigeru Kasahara started at lightweight. He also proved itself in this weight class and won with four wins, including one over the Soviet Favorites Alimbeg Bestajew the silver medal.

After the 1956 Olympic Games ended Shigeru Kasahara, only 23 years old, his career and became a coach Ringer. A 1971 book authored by him textbook on training theory in free and Greco-Roman style is still considered a classic of training theory in wrestling.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, F = Freestyle, Fe = Featherweight, Lightweight = Le, then to 62 kg or 67 kg body weight)

Swell

• Various issues of the journal Athletics from 1954 to 1956
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976