Tomohiro Matsunaga
Tomohiro Matsunaga (松 永 共 広jap, Tomohiro Matsunaga; born 27 June 1980 Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese wrestler. His biggest success is winning the silver medal at the 2008 Olympics in free style bantamweight.
Career
Tomohiro Matsunaga struggling since 1985., He focused entirely on the free style. In Japan he previously belonged Alsok Tokyo, the team of the security company Sogo Hosho Keibi (综合 警备 保障, Eng. Sohgo Security Services ) at. He also began for the Nippon Sport Science University, where he also studied. His livelihood, he denies at the time as a security guard ( Security Guard ). His club coach was Masanori Ohashi. In the National Team is and he was supervised by Hajime Wakui, Takahiro Wada and Yu Sugiyama. At a size of 1.63 meters, he wrestles bantamweight. In the 2009/10 season Tomohiro Matsunaga competed for the RWG Moembris King Mayrhofen in the German Bundesliga.
The best result Tomohiro Matsunaga achieved at junior level, was a 2nd place at the Junior World Championship of Asia in 1998 in Almaty in the weight class up to 49 kg body weight.
2002 Tomohiro Matsunaga Japanese runners. In the final, he lost it against Chikara Tanabe on points. In the same year he was in Edmonton universities world champion with a win in the final over Noursad Babak from Iran.
In 2003 he was employed in New Delhi and in the Asian championship. He arrived there in the Bantamweight title on the 5th Place. In the Japanese championship this year, which took place in December, he lost the final turn Chikara Tanabe. This championship was the same as qualification for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 therefore Chikara Tanabe was used. Tomohiro Matsunaga but was in December 2004 with a win over Shimizu Seshito first Japanese champion in the bantamweight. 2005 so he started at the Asian championship in Wuhan, reaching the bantamweight title with victories over Anil Kumar, India and Enkhtur Badamsaichan, Mongolia, a defeat against Dilshod Mansurov, Uzbekistan and a win over Kim Jong -dae, South Korea 3rd place, which he won his first medal at an international championship of seniors.
Also in the 2005 World Championships in Budapest fought Tomohiro Matsunaga very good. He won there on Francisco Javier Sanchez Parra, Spain, Rene Montero Rosales, Cuba and Yang Jae- hoon, South Korea, but was defeated in the semifinals again against Dilshod Mansurov and in the fight for third place against Naranbaatar Bayaraa from Mongolia on points. In December 2005 he won at the Japanese championship with a victory over Yasuhiro Inaba his second championship title.
The International Championships 2006 Tomohiro Matsunaga was missing through injury. In January 2007, he was fit again and pulled away with a win over Hidenori Taoka his third Japanese master title which was for the year 2006.
At the 2007 World Championships in Baku, he met the 1st round on his nemesis Dilshod Mansurov and subject to that on points. Since Mansurov not reached the final, he left and landed on one, his skill not at all relevant, 26th place. As a consolation, he won in December 2007, his fourth Japanese championship title with a victory in the final over Hideki Taoka.
The year 2008 then became the most successful in his career. He won first at the Asian Championship in Jeju / South Korea before Yang Jae- hoon, South Korea and Firas Ali L Rafaee from Iran, which he also qualified for the Olympic Games in Beijing. In Beijing, he won over Adama Diatta from Senegal, Sezer Akgül from Turkey and - finally - also Dilshod Mansurov. This victory was a 4-3 techn. Points and 2-1 rounds very scarce. All the more surprising was his clear points victory ( 8-0 techn. Dots 2-0 rounds) in the semifinals over the reigning world champion Besik Kuduchow from Russia. In the final he met the young American Henry Cejudo, he actually was against the favorites, but against which he clearly with 2:5 techn. Points and 0:2 rounds defeated. Cejudo won the gold medal so that, for Matsunaga but was winning the silver medal also a great success.
In international championships Tomohiro Matsunaga wrestled no longer after the Olympic Games in 2008.
International success
Japanese Championships
Notes
- All competitions in free style
- OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup
- Bantamweight weight class up to 55 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)