Tsugumi Sakurai 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 ...

. She is a three-time gold medalist at the

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(2021, 2022 and 2023). She also won the gold medal in her event at the 2022 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Career

She won the gold medal in the women's 55kg event at the

2021 World Wrestling Championships The 2021 World Wrestling Championships was the 17th edition of the World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held from 2 to 10 October 2021 in Oslo, Norway. The event was subsequent to the 2019 World Championships due to the canc ...

held in Oslo, Norway. She also won the gold medal in her event at the 2022 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She won the gold medal in the women's 57kg 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. A year later, she also won the gold medal in the women's 57kg event at the

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held in Belgrade, Serbia.

Achievements

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* * Living people 2001 births Sportspeople from Kōchi Prefecture Japanese female sport wrestlers World Wrestling Championships medalists Asian Wrestling Championships medalists 21st-century Japanese women Wrestlers at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in wrestling Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games {{Japan-wrestling-bio-stub