Wrestling Hiroe Minagawa goes to the Tokyo Olympic finals Women's 76kg class September 18 20:51
On the 18th at the world wrestling championship held in Kazakhstan, Hiroe Minagawa, a 76-kilometer class girl, made the final decision for the next year's Tokyo Olympics. If Minagawa passes the measurement that takes place before the final on the 19th, the medal acquisition will be confirmed and it will be officially announced as the representative. Minagawa will be participating in the Olympic Games for the first time.
Japanese heavyweight queen
Minagawa is 32 years old from Uji City, Kyoto. He has been a leading figure in this class, having won numerous national and international competitions since his teenage years and won the All Japan Championship five times.
Since Kyoko Hamaguchi, who was a talented person, left the front line of the competition, he has long been a heavyweight queen of Japan.
In 2015, he was selected as the representative of the world championship, but he left with a knee injury and missed the next year's Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Although I thought about retirement for a while, I won the bronze medal, the first medal in the world championship, which was the fourth participation. Last year, we won a bronze medal for two consecutive tournaments, and started steadily producing results on the world stage.
Although it is small at the weight class with a height of 1 meter and 62 centimeters, it excels at tackling that moves around and collapses from the side, and has also newly polished a tackle that jumps into the pocket from the front.
In the world championship, we decided to advance to the final and won the medal for the third consecutive tournament.