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Yukako Kawai (川井 友香子, Kawai Yukako, born 27 August 1997) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler. She won the gold medal in the women's 62 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
In 2018, she won the silver medal in the women's 62 kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. A year later, she won one of the bronze medals in this event.
Career
In 2017, she competed in the women's 63 kg event at the World Wrestling Championships in Paris, France without winning a medal. She won her first match against Elmira Gambarova of Azerbaijan but she was eliminated from the competition in her next match against Jackeline Rentería of Colombia. Rentería went on to win one of the bronze medals.
She won the gold medal in the women's 62 kg event at the 2020 Asian Wrestling Championships held in New Delhi, India. In the final, she defeated Ayaulym Kassymova of Kazakhstan.
In 2021, Kawai won the gold medal in the 62 kg wrestling division at the Tokyo Olympics. Her elder sister Risako won gold in the 57 kg division the following day.
Achievements
References
External links
Yukako Kawai at United World Wrestling
Yukako Kawai at the International Wrestling Database
Yukako Kawai at Olympics.com
Yukako Kawai at Olympedia
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Gulat pada Olimpiade Musim Panas 2020
- Kejuaraan Gulat Dunia 2018
- Jepang pada Olimpiade Musim Panas 2020
- Daftar peraih medali pada Olimpiade Musim Panas 2020
- Dengeki Bunko
- Yukako Kawai
- Yukako
- Risako Kinjo
- Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's freestyle 62 kg
- Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's freestyle 63 kg
- List of Olympic medalists in freestyle wrestling
- Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's freestyle 62 kg
- Rim Jong-sim (wrestler)
- 2018 World Wrestling Championships
