Yojiro Uetake
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Born | Ora, Japan | January 12, 1943|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Freestyle and Folkstyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Oklahoma State | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yojiro Uetake (
Life and career[edit]
Uetake had originally hoped to learn judo, but was considered too light. He later went on to become a high school wrestling national champion in Japan. The commissioner of the Japanese Wrestling Federation sent Uetake to the Oklahoma State University as a promise to head coach Myron Roderick. Roderick considered him "by far the best wrestler he ever saw or coached". While at Oklahoma State, Uetake was a three-time undefeated NCAA Champion. Later, Uetake went back to Japan as a coach.[4]
Olympics[edit]
Uetake competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo where he won a gold medal in Freestyle wrestling in the bantamweight class.[5]
He also won a gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics.[6] Despite suffering a separated shoulder in the second round while trailing 0-2, Uetake managed to even the score at 2-2 and ended up with the gold medal in the 57 kg division.
References[edit]
- ^ Yojiro Uetake Obata. National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
- ^ "Kevin Jackson, Yojiro Uetake among 11 inducted into FILA Wrestling Hall of Fame". TheMat.com. Archived from the original on 2010-01-06.
- ^ "THE GREATEST EVER: Japanese import Uetake honored by Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame". The Oklahoman. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
- ^ "Two-Time Olympic Champion Wrestler Yojiro Uetake Part 2: Born in Japan, Made in America". theolympians.co. 16 June 2016. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
- ^ "1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Wrestling" Archived 2007-08-26 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on September 2, 2008)
- ^ "1968 Summer Olympics – Mexico City, Mexico – Wrestling" Archived 2008-09-29 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on September 2, 2008)
- 1943 births
- Living people
- Olympic wrestlers for Japan
- Wrestlers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Wrestlers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Japanese male sport wrestlers
- Olympic gold medalists for Japan
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- Oklahoma State Cowboys wrestlers
- American sportsmen
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Japanese people
- Sportspeople from Gunma Prefecture
- Japanese Olympic medalist stubs
- Japanese sport wrestler stubs