Yoko Tanabe ( Jap. 田 辺 陽 子 ; January 28, 1966 , Tokyo ) - Japanese judoist of the light heavyweight category, played for the Japanese team in the late 1980s and mid-1990s. Silver medalist of the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona and Atlanta, winner of two silver and three bronze medals of the World Championships, champion of the Asian Games in Beijing, champion of Asia, winner of many tournaments of national and international significance.
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| Citizenship |  Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | January 28, 1966 (53 years old) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Tokyo Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Growth | 173 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight category | light heavy (up to 72 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Yoko Tanabe was born on January 28, 1966 in Tokyo .
The first serious success at the adult international level was achieved in 1987, when she joined the main team of the Japanese national team and attended the World Championships in Essen, Germany, from where she brought the bronze dignity prize, won in the light heavyweight category - Ingrid Bergmans was defeated at the semi-finals stage. . She performed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , where female judo was included as an indicative sport , and won a bronze medal.
In 1989, at the world championship in Yugoslav Belgrade, Tanabe was among the winners in two weight categories at once, received silver in the light heavyweight category and bronze in the absolute. A year later, in light heavyweight, she won the Asian Games in Beijing, while in open weight, she was forced to be content with a bronze award. A year later, she added to the track record a gold medal won at the Asian home championship in Osaka, and a silver medal received at the World Championships in Barcelona - the only defeat here was from Korean Kim Mi Chun , the future Olympic champion.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, Yoko Tanabe won the right to defend the country's honor at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , where women's judo was first included in the program as a full-fledged sport. On the way to the finals, she confidently prevailed over all light heavyweight rivals, in the decisive match she again met Korean Kim Mi Chun and lost to her again, thus receiving a silver Olympic medal.
After the Barcelona Olympics, Tanabe remained in the main composition of the judoka team in Japan and continued to take part in major international tournaments. So, in 1995, she successfully performed at the home world championship in Chiba, where she won the light heavyweight bronze medal, losing only to Belgian Ulla Verbrouk . Being among the leaders of the Japanese national team, she successfully qualified for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , as a result, she repeated the success of four years ago, reached the finals again and received the silver medal - in the decisive match, she won Ulla Verbrook. Soon after the end of these competitions, she decided to end the career of a professional athlete, losing her place in the national team to young Japanese judokas, and switched to coaching.
He currently teaches judo at the University of Nihon in Tokyo [1] .
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Links
- Yoko Tanabe - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Yoko Tanabe - profile on judoinside.com