Masaaki Kaneko
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Born | (1940-07-08) July 8, 1940 (age 83) Tochigi Prefecture, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 171 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Freestyle wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Masaaki Kaneko (金子正明, Kaneko Masaaki, born July 8, 1940) is a retired Japanese featherweight freestyle wrestler. Between 1966 and 1968 he won all major titles, including gold medals at two world championships, and at the 1966 Asian and 1968 Olympic Games.[1][2] He was inducted in the Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2007.[3]
Life and career
Kaneko was born in Ashikaga, Tochigi and started wrestling in high school. After graduating from Senshu University he joined the Japan Self-Defense Forces. He lost against Yojiro Uetake for the qualification to the 1964 Summer Olympics in bantamweight. He started weight training and changed weight classes to featherweight, eventually winning two world championships and the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was considered to be an "unusual" gold medalist, being 28 years old at the time, married, with a child. After retirement, he worked at the self-defense forces, and later became a secretary, and then a security director at Fuji Television.[4]
References
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- ^ "Masaaki Kaneko". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
- ^ "Masaaki Kaneko". International Wrestling Database. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
- ^ "Masaaki Kaneko". United World Wrestling. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
- ^ "『五輪と私』「攻めろ」協会長方針に反発自分流 男子レスリングメキシコ「金」金子正明さん". 読売新聞栃木版 (in Japanese). 読売新聞社. November 24, 2013. Archived from the original on February 23, 2017. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
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- 1904
Benjamin Bradshaw (USA)
- 1908
George Dole (USA)
- 1920
Charles Ackerly (USA)
- 1924
Robin Reed (USA)
- 1928
Allie Morrison (USA)
- 1932
Hermanni Pihlajamäki (FIN)
- 1936
Kustaa Pihlajamäki (FIN)
- 1948
Gazanfer Bilge (TUR)
- 1952
Bayram Şit (TUR)
- 1956
Shozo Sasahara (JPN)
- 1960
Mustafa Dağıstanlı (TUR)
- 1964
Osamu Watanabe (JPN)
- 1968
Masaaki Kaneko (JPN)
- 1972
Zagalav Abdulbekov (URS)
- 1976
Yang Jung-mo (KOR)
- 1980
Magomedgasan Abushev (URS)
- 1984
Randall Lewis (USA)
- 1988
John Smith (USA)
- 1992
John Smith (USA)
- 1996
Tom Brands (USA)
- 2000
Murad Umakhanov (RUS)
- 2004
Yandro Quintana (CUB)
- 2008
Mavlet Batirov (RUS)
- 2012
Toghrul Asgarov (AZE)
- 1904: 61.33 kg
- 1908: 60.3 kg
- 1920–1936: 61 kg
- 1948–1960: 62 kg
- 1964–1968: 63 kg
- 1972–1996: 62 kg
- 2000: 63 kg
- 2004–2012: 60 kg
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