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Saori Yoshida (吉田 沙保里, Yoshida Saori, born 5 October 1982) is a Japanese former freestyle wrestler. Starting in 1998, she won almost every major competition, including three Olympic Games, four Asian Games, and 13 world championships, and became the most decorated athlete in freestyle wrestling history.
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Wrestling's most decorated champion, Saori Yoshida, has announced her retirement. The 36-year-old won Olympic gold at Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012, with her first Games defeat coming at the hands of Helen Maroulis in the Rio 2015 53kg final.
The greatest female wrestler of all time, Saori Yoshida, was introduced to the sport at a very early age by her father, the late Eikatsu Yoshida, an Olympic freestyle champion at Tokyo 1964 and national team coach.
Undefeated in major championships between 2002 and 2016, Japanese freestyle wrestler Saori Yoshida won 13 world titles in a row and three consecutive Olympic gold medals, at Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012.
Mar 7, 2015 · 3 Time Olympic Wrestling Champion Saori Yoshida on her London 2012 Gold | Olympic Rewind. 📲 Subscribe to @olympics: http://oly.ch/Subscribe Japan's Saori Yoshida has won three...
Jan 8, 2019 · Japanese wrestler Saori Yoshida announced her retirement via Twitter on Tuesday. Yoshida made her senior debut in 2002 and went on to win her first 119 international matches (a win streak that lasted until January 2008).
Jan 8, 2019 · A 13-time world champion, the 36-year-old Yoshida has been taking time away from the mat since the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, where she fell short of a fourth-straight Olympic gold medal. She has been doubling as a coach for the Japanese national team in the lead-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Jan 10, 2019. Wrestling legend Saori Yoshida is recognized as a remarkable winner for what she accomplished on the mat. Even though she claimed a silver medal at her final marquee competition,...
The 36-year-old legend reached the top of the podium at every World Championship she competed at from 2002-2015 and is one of two wrestlers to win three consecutive women’s wrestling Olympic gold medals. The only other woman with three Olympic titles is Yoshida’s longtime teammate, Kaori ICHO (JPN), who won her fourth Olympic gold medal in Rio.
