Taishi Narikuni (born 13 November 1997) is a Japanese
freestyle wrestler
Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. American high school and men's college wrestling i ...
. He won the gold medal in the
men's 70kg event at the
2022 World Wrestling Championships
The 2022 World Wrestling Championships was the 17th edition of the World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held between 10 and 18 September 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia.
The UWW Bureau approved the candidature of Belgrade, Serbia ...
held in Belgrade, Serbia.
He also won the gold medal in his event at the
2022 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
His mother
Akiko Iijima is a four-time medalist at the
World Wrestling Championships
The World Wrestling Championships are the Amateur Wrestling World Championships organized by United World Wrestling. The Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling tournament began in 1904, and the Men's Freestyle Wrestling tournament began in 1951. The Women's ...
, including two gold medals (
1990
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and
1991
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).
Achievements
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Living people
1997 births
Sportspeople from Tokyo
Japanese male sport wrestlers
World Wrestling Champions
Asian Wrestling Championships medalists
21st-century Japanese people
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