Hideaki Yanagida

Hideaki Yanagida
Medal record

Representing Japan
Men's Freestyle wrestling
Olympic Games
	1972 Munich	Bantamweight

Hideaki Yanagida (柳田英明, Yanagida Hideaki) (born 1 January 1947) is a Japanese wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.

Olympics

Yanagida competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich where he received a gold medal in Freestyle wrestling, the bantamweight class.^[1]

References

↑ "1972 Summer Olympics – München, Germany – Wrestling" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on September 3, 2008)

Asian Games Wrestling Champions in Men's Freestyle Bantamweight

1954–1994: 57 kg 1998: 58 kg 2002–2010: 55 kg 2014–: 57 kg

1954: Minoru Iizuka (JPN) 1958: Minoru Iizuka (JPN) 1962: Tadashi Asai (JPN) 1966: Tadamichi Tanaka (JPN) 1970: Hideaki Yanagida (JPN) 1974: Mohsen Farahvashi (IRI) 1978: Hideaki Tomiyama (JPN) 1982: Hideaki Tomiyama (JPN) 1986: Askari Mohammadian (IRI) 1990: Kim Yong-sik (PRK) 1994: Tserenbaataryn Tsogtbayar (MGL) 1998: Ri Yong-sam (PRK) 2002: Dilshod Mansurov (UZB) 2006: Dilshod Mansurov (UZB) 2010: Dilshod Mansurov (UZB) 2014: Jong Hak-jin (PRK)

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