Kazuhito Sakae
.jpg) Kazuhito Sakae with Saori Yoshida at the 2008 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | June 19, 1960 Amami City, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kazuhito Sakae (栄 和人, Sakae Kazuhito, born June 19, 1960) is a Japanese wrestling coach and retired wrestler who won several medals in the 62 kg category at the Asian and world level between 1983 and 1989. Remarkably, at the 1983 Asian Wrestling Championships, he won a gold medal in the freestyle wrestling and a silver in the Greco-Roman wrestling.[1][2] After retiring from competitions he worked as a national coach, training Saori Yoshida, Kaori Icho, Hitomi Obara, Chiharu Icho and Eri Tosaka, among others.
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kazuhito Sakae". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020.
- ^ Sakae, Kazuhito (JPN). iat.uni-leipzig.de
External links
[edit]- Kazuhito Sakae at the International Wrestling Database
- Kazuhito Sakae at Olympedia
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