Naori Hamada, the Japanese girl who won the third gold medal in this tournament at the 78 kg class of judo girls held at the Tokyo Olympics on the 29th.


The strategy of thoroughly sticking to the ground fighting that I am good at has come to fruition.

"Ground fighting helps me."

At the press conference after the match, Hamada replied.



"Ground fighting helps me." Ground fighting that I



started working on when I was in high school.

For Hamada, who said he had no special skills in elementary and junior high school, it became the greatest weapon to push himself to the top.


The best shape is to turn over the opponent who is hungry like a turtle and hold it down.

It is said that the muscles of the right shoulder are greatly raised compared to the left shoulder because the opponent is always returned using the right arm.

Making full use of this ground fighting technique, he won the world championship in 2018.



In order to raise the level even further toward the Tokyo Olympics, I thought about increasing the patterns that I would bring from standing skills to ground fighting.

Hamada, who originally had a pattern of breaking the opponent with a foot technique such as Uchi mata and bringing it to a ground fight, newly worked on the cooperation from a carrying technique such as seoi nage to a ground fight.



It was the semi-finals that this new pattern actually lived.

I lost my posture by throwing my back against a German player, and in a blink of an eye, I took my arm and decided to squeeze my arm.

Director Katsuyuki Masuchi praised, "I've been honing my standing skills to get a ground fight, but it was the semi-final that lived the most. It has evolved."



The opponent of the final is Madeleine Malonga of France who lost in the 2019 World Championship.

At this time, I couldn't finish with a ground fight, and I was robbed of points by a standing fight.


Rematch in the Olympic final.


Hamada, who said, "I was able to fight with the feeling that I would never lose," did not miss the chance to come to the place where the opponent's standing skill was surpassed.

Turn over the hungry partner who has been the best at and suppress it.

This time, I never missed the other party.

After 20 seconds, I won one.


He won all four games with a ground fight and was a gold medal in "all one".


One of the world's leading judo “sleepers” said, “Even though I was researched, I practiced to be able to do it. I think I was able to practice today.”