was a Japanese freestyle wrestler who won a gold medal at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

. He was the first Japanese gold medalist after

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

, the only Japanese gold medalist at the 1952 Olympics, and one of two Japanese medalists in wrestling at the 1952 Olympics, the other being flyweight Yushu Kitano, who won silver in freestyle. Ishii took wrestling because there was no judo club around. He died of kidney cancer, aged 53.

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* * * 1926 births 1980 deaths Olympic wrestlers for Japan Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Japanese male sport wrestlers Olympic gold medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics 20th-century Japanese people {{Japan-wrestling-bio-stub