Karen Nun-Ira
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

is a Japanese
judoka is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo"). ...
. Her mother is Japanese and a feng shui master, while her father is
Ghanaian Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in Ghana–Ivory Coast border, the west, Burkina ...
.
Nikkan Sports is the first-launched Japanese daily sports newspaper founded in 1946. It has a circulation of 1,661,000, and is an affiliate newspaper of the ''Asahi Shimbun''. Companies and regions ;Nikkan Sports News (Tokyo) :Tokyo HQ: 5-10, Tsukiji Sanc ...
 2014-8-29
She started judo at the age of 14. In 2010, she entered
International Pacific University is a private university Private universities and private colleges are institutions of higher education, not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments. They may (and often do) receive from governments tax breaks, public stu ...
and was trained by former Olympic and world champion
Toshihiko Koga was a Japanese judoka, 9th degree black belt and Olympic champion who competed in the -71 kg and -78 kg divisions. Koga is regarded as having perhaps the greatest ippon seoi nage ever. He died of cancer on March 24, 2021 at the age of ...
. In 2014, she belonged to Ryotokuji Gakuen after graduating from the university. She won the silver medal in the middleweight (70 kg) division at the 2014 World Judo Championships.


References


External links

* 1991 births Living people People from Funabashi Japanese female judoka Japanese people of Ghanaian descent Sportspeople of Ghanaian descent 21st-century Japanese women {{Japan-judo-bio-stub