is a wrestler from

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. She won the gold medal in the women's 69 kg event at the

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held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She also won the gold medal in her event at the

2017 World Wrestling Championships The 2017 World Wrestling Championships were the 14th edition of World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held from August 21 to 27 in Paris, France. Medal table Team ranking Medal summary Men's freestyle Men's Gre ...

held in Paris, France.

Career

She competes in the 67kg division and won the gold medal at the

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in the same division defeating

Ochirbatyn Nasanburmaa Ochirbat Nasanburmaa (born 14 April 1989) is a female wrestler from Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and C ...

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in the final. She also won the bronze medal the

2013 World Wrestling Championships The 2013 World Wrestling Championships was the 9th edition of World Wrestling Championships of combined events and were held from September 16 to 22 in Budapest, Hungary. Medal table Team ranking Medal summary Men's freestyle Men's Greco- ...

. She won the gold medal in women's freestyle (69kg) at the

2016 Olympic Games ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro d ...

in Rio de Janeiro. In 2021, she lost her bronze medal match in the women's 68 kg event at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

held in Tokyo, Japan.

Championships and accomplishments

* ''

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'' ** Wrestling Special Award (2016, 2017)

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* * * * 1994 births Living people Japanese female sport wrestlers World Wrestling Championships medalists Olympic wrestlers for Japan Olympic gold medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in wrestling Wrestlers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Summer World University Games medalists in wrestling FISU World University Games gold medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade 21st-century Japanese sportswomen Sportspeople from Mie Prefecture {{Japan-wrestling-bio-stub