Ishii, Shohati

Sokhati Ishii ( Jap. 石井 庄 八 Ishii Shô: hati ) - Japanese freestyle wrestler, Olympic champion.

Shohati Ishii
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A country	Japan
Date of Birth	September 20, 1926 ( 1926-09-20 )
Place of Birth
Date of death	January 4, 1980 ( 1980-01-04 ) (53 years)
Weight	up to 57 kg
Awards and medals Freestyle wrestling Olympic Games Gold Helsinki 1952 up to 57 kg

Shohati Ishii was born in 1926 in Tokyo , graduated from Chuo University .

In 1952, Sohati Ishii at the Olympic Games in Helsinki in the final defeated the Soviet athlete Rashid Mamedbekov ^[1] . Thus, he became the first Japanese athlete to win the Olympic gold medal after World War II .