Yoriko Okamoto

Yoriko Okamoto
Medal record
Women's taekwondo
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place2000 Sydney67 kg
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place1998 BangkokLightweight
Asian Championships
Silver medal – second place1994 ManilaWelterweight
Silver medal – second place1996 MelbourneWelterweight
Bronze medal – third place1998 Ho Chi Minh CityWelterweight
Bronze medal – third place2006 BangkokWelterweight

Yoriko Okamoto (岡本 依子, Okamoto Yoriko; born September 6, 1971 in Kadoma, Osaka) is the first Japanese athlete to become an Olympic taekwondo medalist, winning the bronze medal at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics in the 57–67 kg weight class.[1][2]

After beginning karate at age 12, she attended Waseda University in Tokyo. She spent her junior year of college studying abroad in the United States at the University of Oregon, where she began learning Taekwondo.

Kickboxing record

Kickboxing record[3]
0 wins, 1 losses, 0 draws
Date Result OpponentEventLocation MethodRoundTimeRecord
1993-12-19LossNetherlands Lucia RijkerK-2 Grand Prix '93Tokyo, JapanTKO (right low kick)20:38
Legend:   Win   Loss   Draw/No contest   Notes

Personal life

Okamoto is a 1996 graduate of the Waseda School of Human Sciences, and currently works at Runes Kanazawa Co. Ltd. She is a Christian.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Taekwondo" Archived 2008-08-23 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on August 9, 2010)
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yoriko Okamoto". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "Women's kickboxing results". Archived from the original on 2019-11-08. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
  4. ↑ "NEW DAWN IN THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN". FCA. 9 July 2021.


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