Shori Hamada
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Nationality | Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Kirishima-Shi, Kagoshima-ken, Japan | September 25, 1990|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Judo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | –78 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shori Hamada (濵田 尚里, Hamada Shōri, born 1990) is a Japanese, medal-winning Olympian judoka and army officer.[1][2] In 2018 She won the gold medal in the 2018 World Judo Championships. In 2021 she won the gold medal in the women's 78 kg event, and silver in the mixed team event, at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[3][4]
Career[]
Hamada was born in Kagoshima prefecture and started Judo at the age of ten. When she was in Kagoshima Minami High School, she was taught newaza (ground grappling techniques) rigorously by her school judo coach, which made her win the second place at -78 kg category of the All Japan High School Championships. Also during this period, she repeatedly studied videos of Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki and absorbed his newaza techniques.[5] After the high school she played at Yamanashi Gakuin University, where she started Sambo, a Russian combat sport, alongside Judo to expand her range of newaza skills, and won the gold medal at 2014 World Sambo Championships.[6] After the university she joined the Japan Self-Defense Forces where she brushed up her transition skills between tachiwaza (standing/throwing techniques) and newaza. With her highly skilled newaza, she won the gold medal at the 2018 World Judo Championships,[7] and the silver medal in the 2019 World Judo Championships. She won the gold medal in 2020 Judo Grand Slam Düsseldorf and was officially nominated by the All Japan Judo Federation for the -78 kg category representative of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
In the Olympic Games held at Tokyo in 2021, she won the gold medal at -78 kg category, defeating Beata Pacut (Polland), Aleksandra Babintseva (Russia), Anna-Maria Wagner (Germany), and Madeleine Malonga (France), all with Ippon by newaza. Also she got the silver medal as a registered member of the mixed team category though she had no opportunity to fight in the category.[8]
As of July 2021, her rank in the Ground Self-Defense Force of Japan is captain.[9][10] She is often referred to as the "Newaza no Jouou (Queen of Newaza)" or "Newaza-shi (Newaza Master)" in Japanese media.[11][12][13]
Judo Style[]
Hamada's judo is characterized by her overwhelming newaza skills. Most of her recorded wins were with Ippon by newaza. Although she has some powerful standing techniques such as Uchi mata and Ouchi gari, she mostly uses them as a transition to a ground fight, and once on the ground, she attacks from any direction (under, over, or side of the opponent) with her masterly newaza techniques such as Hikikomi gaeshi and Ude garami (Kimura Lock) gaeshi, which, with a high probability, leads to or tapping out by arm-joint lock.[14] She also favors to use various shimewaza (choking techniques) to finish her fights. In Japan her relentless newaza attack is often compared to an ant-lion larvae attacking ants.[15][16][17]
References[]
- ^ IJF profile
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- ^ "Hamada Shori continues Japan's judo dominance by winning gold in women's -78kg". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ "Judo HAMADA Shori - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". .. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
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- ^ 2018 World Judo Championships –78 kg results
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External links[]
- Shori Hamada at Olympedia
- Shori Hamada at the International Judo Federation
- Shori Hamada at JudoInside.com
- Shori Hamada at AllJudo.net
- Shori Hamada at The-Sports.org
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Japanese female judoka
- World judo champions
- Universiade gold medalists for Japan
- Universiade medalists in judo
- Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade
- Judoka at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic judoka of Japan
- Olympic gold medalists for Japan
- Olympic silver medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in judo