is a retired Japanese

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and

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. She won six gold medals and one silver medal in three weight classes (65, 70, and 75 kg) at the

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from 1990 to 1996.

Biography

Urano was involved in

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at , as her father was a

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. After entering

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, she started

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. She became captain of the Judo club and won the 61 kg weight class at the Tokyo University Championships. Furthermore, she also started

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at the suggestion of

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's father, Ikuei Yamamoto, who was a coach of the university wrestling team. In 1990, two years after starting wrestling, she won her first

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in the 75kg weight class. In 1991, she won the 70 kg weight class at the

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. She was second at the

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, but won for the third time at the

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. She then moved down to the 65kg weight class and won the World Championships for three consecutive years starting in 1994. She was with the

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company , but when the company went bankrupt, she went to

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to study at the

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. There she married

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wrestler Odagaki. Then she retired, partly due to a knee injury. In 2007, she became the second woman to be inducted into the UWW (then FILA)

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. in 2013, Urano became a member of the UWW (then FILA) Women and Sport Commission.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Urano, Yayoi 1969 births Living people Japanese female sport wrestlers Japanese female judoka World Wrestling Championships medalists Asian Wrestling Championships medalists 20th-century Japanese women Sportspeople from Kawasaki, Kanagawa