Yuhi Fujinami
 Fujinami at the 2018 Asian Games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Native name | 藤波勇飛 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | May 27, 1996 Mie, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | 74 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Yuji Takada (club) Shigeki Nishiguchi (national) Kenji Inoue (national)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yuhi Fujinami (藤波勇飛, Fujinami Yuhi, born May 27, 1996) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler. His younger sister is 2021 World Wrestling Championships and 2024 Summer Olympics women's 50 kg gold medalist Akari Fujinami.[2]
He won bronze medals at the 2017 World Championships and 2018 Asian Games.[3][4] He missed the 2018 World Championships due to an injury.[1]
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.[1]
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yuhi Fujinami.
- ^ a b c Yuhi Fujinami. asiangames2018.id
- ^ "17歳藤波朱理が初出場V 兄は17年世界選手権銅" [17-year-old Akari Fujinami won the World Championships in her first appearance. Her brother won bronze at the 2017 World Championships]. Nikkan Sports (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan. 2020-12-20. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
- ^ "2017 World Wrestling Championships" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 May 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ "Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). 2018 Asian Games. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
External links
[edit]- Yūhi Fujinami at the International Wrestling Database
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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 sportsmen
- Sportspeople from Mie Prefecture
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