Akari Fujinami
| File:TeamJapan-Paris2024-Nihonbashi-Event---2024-11-30 0619.jpg Fujinami in 2024 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 藤波朱理 |
| Born | 11 November 2003 Yokkaichi, Japan |
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) |
| Relative | Yuhi Fujinami (brother) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Wrestling |
| Weight class | 53 kg |
Event | Freestyle |
Medal record | |
Akari Fujinami (Japanese: 藤波朱理; born 11 November 2003) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler.[1][2] She won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[3] She has won 150 straight national and international bouts since her loss at the National Junior High School Wrestling Championships in 2017.[4]
Career
[edit | edit source]Fujinami won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships held in Oslo, Norway.[5][6] She also won the gold medal in her event at the 2022 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.[7][8]
Fujinami won the gold medal in the women's 55 kg event at the 2023 Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament held in Sofia, Bulgaria.[9] She also won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event at the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China.[10] She defeated Pang Qianyu of China in her gold medal match.[10]
In 2024, Fujinami won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event at the Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[11] She defeated Lucía Yépez of Ecuador in her gold medal match.[11]
Awards
[edit | edit source]- Women's Wrestling Hall of Fame
- WWHOF Award (1 time)
- Amateur Wrestler of the Year (2025)
- WWHOF Award (1 time)
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Akari Fujinami at United World Wrestling
- Akari Fujinami at the International Wrestling DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Akari Fujinami at Olympics.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- Akari Fujinami at InterSportStats
- Akari Fujinami – Paris 2024 at Team Japan (in Japanese) (in English)
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- 2003 births
- Living people
- Japanese female sport wrestlers
- Freestyle wrestlers
- Olympic wrestlers for Japan
- Olympic gold medalists for Japan
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- Wrestlers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
- Asian Games wrestlers for Japan
- Asian Games gold medalists in wrestling
- Wrestlers at the 2022 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games
- World Wrestling Championships medalists
- Asian Wrestling Championships medalists
- Sportspeople from Yokkaichi
- 21st-century Japanese sportswomen
- Japanese sport wrestler stubs
- Japanese Olympic medalist stubs