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 ...

. His younger sister is

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 ...

gold medalist

Akari Fujinami Akari Fujinami ( ja, 藤波朱理; born 11 November 2003) is a Japanese Freestyle wrestling, freestyle wrestler. Her older brother is 2017 World Wrestling Championships bronze medalist Yuhi Fujinami. She has won 111 straight national and internati ...

. He won bronze medals at the 2017 World Championships and 2018 Asian Games. He missed the 2018 World Championships due to an injury. He took up wrestling aged eight at the wrestling gym of his father, Toshikazu Fujinami, a wrestling coach and a former wrestler. He has a degree in law from the

Yamanashi Gakuin University Yamanashi Gakuin University (Japanese: 山梨学院大学, ''Yamanashi gakuin daigaku'') (YGU) is a university in Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Yamanashi Gakuin was founded in 1946. Today, it is a comprehensive educational institution that ...

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* 1996 births Living people Japanese male sport wrestlers Wrestlers at the 2018 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in wrestling Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan World Wrestling Championships medalists 21st-century Japanese people Sportspeople from Mie Prefecture {{Japan-sport-bio-stub