Akira Sone
Akira Sone (
Career
[edit]Sone started Judo at the age of 7, following her three brothers.[2][3] In April 2013, she went on to Tanushimaru Junior High School.[2][3] In August 2015, Sone won the World Judo Championships Cadets and the National Junior High School Championships.[2][3] In April 2016, she began studying at Nanchiku High School.[2][3] In March 2017, she won the National High School Championships.[2][3] She won the Inter-High School Championships in August 2017.[2][3] In October 2017, Sone won the World Judo Championships Juniors(+78 kg weight class).[5] In April 2018, she won the All-Japan Judo Championships.[6] In August 2018, Sone won the Asian Games.[7]
Sone won the gold medal in the women's +78 kg event, and silver in the mixed team event, at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ IJF profile
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近代 柔道 2018年 4月 号 柔道 全日本 強化 選手 名鑑 2018 -". Baseball Magazine Sha Co., Ltd. 20 April 2018. p. 21. - ^ a b c d e f g "
近代 柔道 2018年 2月 号 解体 新書 素 根 輝 -". Baseball Magazine Sha Co., Ltd. 20 February 2018. pp. 26–29. - ^ "Judo SONE Akira". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
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素 根 、梅津 が優勝 =柔道 世界 ジュニア. Jiji Press (in Japanese). 22 October 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2018. - ^ 17
歳 ・素 根 輝 、史上 初 の柔道 全日本 女子 選手権 初 出場 V…東京 五輪 代表 争 いに名乗 り. Sports Hochi (in Japanese). 22 April 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2018. - ^ "Judoka Ruika Sato, Kentaro Iida, Akira Sone add to Japan's gold-medal haul". Japan Times. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
- ^ "2020 Summer Olympics — Judo - Women +78 kg Schedule". 2020 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original on 6 October 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
External links
[edit]- Akira Sone at the International Judo Federation
- Akira Sone at JudoInside.com
- Akira Sone at AllJudo.net (in French)
- Akira Sone at Olympics.com
- Akira Sone at Olympedia
- Akira Sone at The-Sports.org
- Akira Sone on Instagram
- 2000 births
- Living people
- Japanese female judoka
- Martial artists from Fukuoka Prefecture
- People from Kurume
- World judo champions
- Judoka at the 2018 Asian Games
- Judoka at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
- Asian Games medalists in judo
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Olympic judoka for Japan
- Olympic gold medalists for Japan
- Olympic silver medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in judo
- 21st-century Japanese sportswomen
- Japanese judo biography stubs