Masaaki Kaneko

Masaaki Kaneko
Medal record

Representing Japan
Men's Freestyle wrestling
Olympic Games
	1968 Mexico City	Featherweight

Masaaki Kaneko (金子正明, Kaneko Masaaki) (born 8 July 1940) is a Japanese wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.

Olympics

Kaneko competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City where he received a gold medal in Freestyle wrestling, the featherweight class.^[1]

References

↑ "1968 Summer Olympics – Mexico City, Mexico – Wrestling" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on September 3, 2008)

Asian Games Wrestling Champions in Men's Freestyle Featherweight

1954–1958: 62 kg 1962–1966: 63 kg 1970–1994: 62 kg 1998: 63 kg 2002–2010: 60 kg 2014–present: 61 kg

1954: Shigeru Kasahara (JPN) 1958: Kiyoshi Nakagawa (JPN) 1962: Osamu Watanabe (JPN) 1966: Masaaki Kaneko (JPN) 1970: Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi (IRI) 1974: Yang Jung-mo (KOR) 1978: Yang Jung-mo (KOR) 1982: Hiroshi Kaneko (JPN) 1986: Lee Jung-keun (KOR) 1990: Takumi Adachi (JPN) 1994: Takahiro Wada (JPN) 1998: Jang Jae-sung (KOR) 2002: Oyuunbilegiin Pürevbaatar (MGL) 2006: Morad Mohammadi (IRI) 2010: Ganzorigiin Mandakhnaran (MGL) 2014: Masoud Esmaeilpour (IRI)

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