Kenichi Yumoto
Appearance
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Native name | 湯元健一 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan | 4 December 1984||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 166 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | 60 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Alsok Sports Club, Tokyo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Masanori Ohashi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Kenichi Yumoto (Japanese: 湯元健一; born 4 December 1984 in Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he won the bronze medal in his category (60 kilograms).[1] His twin brother Shinichi is also an Olympic-medal winning wrestler.[1]
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Kenichi Yumoto at the International Wrestling Database
- Kenichi Yumoto at Olympics.com
- Kenichi Yumoto at Olympedia
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- Living people
- Japanese male sport wrestlers
- Olympic wrestlers for Japan
- Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Japan
- 1984 births
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Japanese twins
- World Wrestling Championships medalists
- 21st-century Japanese sportsmen
- Sportspeople from Wakayama (city)
- Japanese sport wrestler stubs
- Japanese Olympic medalist stubs