Yojiro Uetake

Yojiro Uetake (Jap.上 武 洋 次郎, Uetake Yojiro; born January 12, 1943 in Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture) is a former Japanese wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1964 and 1968 in free style bantamweight.

Career

Yojiro Uetake comes from Kamakura and, after His high school years and the achievement of the Japanese championship high school wrestler in free style bantamweight in 1963 to study economics at the Oklahoma State University - Stillwater. Coach Myron Roderick formed there the extraordinary talent Uetake in a short time to a world-class wrestler in free style. From 1964 to 1966 this the NCAA Division I Collegiate Championships ( U.S. students Championship) won bantamweight.

In 1964 he started in the Olympic Games in Tokyo and won the bantamweight title with seven wins superior to the gold medal. In the decisive battle for the medal he left the Soviet master Aidyn Ibragimov and the multiple world champion Hüseyin Akbaş from Turkey no chance.

After the Olympics, sat Uetake his studies at OSU continued. He wrestled there until 1966 and remained in 58 fights unbeaten for the University. From 1966 to 1968 Uetake was assistant coach at OSU and prepared specifically for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City before. There, he won his second gold medal in the free style bantamweight, but did not win all the battles diesemal, but struggled against Ali Aliyev from the Soviet Union and Aboutaleb Talebi from Iran "only" draw.

After the 1968 Olympic Games went Uetake who has not participated in either a World Cup or at Asian Championships, returned to Japan and was national coach of the Japanese national team freestyle wrestler. In this capacity he oversaw the Japanese wrestlers at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 and 1976 in Montreal.

Yojiro Uetake who has the surname of his wife, Obata adopted after his marriage, now living as a businessman in Kyoto. After he was admitted to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1980, followed in September 2005, the inclusion in the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, F = Freestyle, Ba = bantamweight, then to 57 kg body weight)

U.S. students Championships

Swell

  • Various issues of the journal Athletics from 1964 to 1968
  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
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