Yui Susaki
須崎優衣
Personal information
Native name須崎優衣
NationalityJapanese
Born30 June 1999 (1999-06-30) (age 24)
Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Height153 cm (5 ft 0 in) (2016)
Weight48 kg (106 lb) (2018)
Sport
CountryJapan
SportWrestling
EventFreestyle
College teamWaseda University
ClubWaseda University club
Medal record
Women's freestyle wrestling
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2020 Tokyo50 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Paris 48 kg
Gold medal – first place 2018 Budapest 50 kg
Gold medal – first place 2022 Belgrade 50 kg
Gold medal – first place 2023 Belgrade 50 kg
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 New Delhi 48 kg
Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin
Gold medal – first place2017 Krasnoyarsk 48 kg
World U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place2022 Pontevedra50 kg
World Juniors Championships
Gold medal – first place2018 Trnava50 kg
Gold medal – first place2019 Tallinn50 kg
World Cadets Championships
Gold medal – first place2014 Snina43 kg
Gold medal – first place2015 Sarajevo46 kg
Gold medal – first place2016 Tbilisi49 kg

Yui Susaki (須崎 優衣, Susaki Yui, born 30 June 1999) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler. She won the gold medal in the women's 50 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics without conceding a single point.[1] She has not been beaten in a single bout since 2010, except for three losses to Yuki Irie in 2015, 2017 and 2019.[2] She has been coached by Shoko Yoshimura, five-time world champion, since she was 13 years old.[3]

Career

An exceptionally technical wrestler, in 2017, she won a gold medal at Paris World Wrestling Championships at 48 kg, and in 2018, she won gold at the Budapest World Wrestling Championships at 50 kg.[4][5] She won the gold medal in the women's 50 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.[6][7]

She competed at Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin 2017 and won a gold medal. In 2018, she won the gold medal in the women's 50 kg event at the Klippan Lady Open in Klippan, Sweden.[8] Susaki beat Maria Stadnik and in a rematch dominated the number 1 2021 Olympic seed 10–1, winning by technical fall. Although widely regarded as the best wrestler in the 50 kg class[9] Susaki entered the Tokyo games unseeded, where she went on to win gold.

On July 5, 2021, she was named flagbearer of the Japanese delegation to the Summer Olympics by the Japanese Olympic Committee, together with basketball player Rui Hachimura.[10]

Susaki also studies in the Sport science faculty at Waseda University.

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). 2020 Summer Olympics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  2. ↑ "SUSAKI Yui". UWW. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  3. ↑ "須崎優衣の恩師・吉村祥子コーチは国際殿堂入りの軽量級最強女王「100点満点をあげたい」" [Yui Susaki's mentor, Coach Shoko Yoshimura was the strongest lightweight queen named to the International Hall of Fame "I would give her a perfect score of 100"]. Hochi Sports (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan. 2021-08-07. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  4. ↑ "Susaki, Yui (JPN)". IAT leipzig. August 24, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
  5. ↑ "3 Japanese win gold at wrestling c'ships". The Japan news. August 25, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  6. ↑ Burke, Patrick (14 September 2022). "Susaki and Morikawa earn Japanese double at World Wrestling Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  7. ↑ "2022 World Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  8. ↑ "Results Book" (PDF). 2018 Klippan Lady Open. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 August 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  9. ↑ "2021 Tokyo Olympics: Women's 50kg Wrestling Gold Medal Odds Favor Japan's Yui Susaki on FanDuel Sportsbook". The Duel. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  10. ↑ "Japan selects Rui Hachimura, Yui Susaki as flagbearers for Olympics". Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  11. ↑ "東京スポーツ プロレス大賞（2010～）". Tokyo Sports (in Japanese). Retrieved December 16, 2017.
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