Akari Fujinami

Akari Fujinami
	Fujinami in 2024
Personal information
Native name	藤波朱理
Born	11 November 2003 (age 22); Yokkaichi, Japan
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Relative	Yuhi Fujinami (brother)
Sport
Sport	Wrestling
Weight class	53 kg
Event	Freestyle
Medal record
Women's freestyle wrestling
Representing Japan
Olympic Games
World Championships
Asian Games
Asian Championships
Grand Prix
U23 World Championships
U17 World Championships
U17 Asian Championships

Akari Fujinami (Japanese: 藤波朱理; born 11 November 2003) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler.^[1]^[2] She won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event at the 2024 Paris Olympics.^[3] She has won 150 straight national and international bouts since her loss at the National Junior High School Wrestling Championships in 2017.^[4]

Career

Fujinami won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships held in Oslo, Norway.^[5]^[6] She also won the gold medal in her event at the 2022 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.^[7]^[8]

Fujinami won the gold medal in the women's 55 kg event at the 2023 Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament held in Sofia, Bulgaria.^[9] She also won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event at the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China.^[10] She defeated Pang Qianyu of China in her gold medal match.^[10]

In 2024, Fujinami won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event at the Summer Olympics in Paris, France.^[11] She defeated Lucía Yépez of Ecuador in her gold medal match.^[11]

Awards

Women's Wrestling Hall of Fame
- WWHOF Award (1 time)
  - Amateur Wrestler of the Year (2025)

References

↑ "Internet Wrestling Database profile". iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbwrestling/. Archived from the original on 2021-10-06. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
↑ "17歳藤波朱理が初出場V 兄は17年世界選手権銅" [17-year-old Akari Fujinami won the World Championships in her first appearance. Her brother won bronze at the 2017 World Championships]. Nikkan Sports (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan. 2020-12-20. Archived from the original on 2022-03-19. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
↑ "FUJINAMI Akari". Paris 2024 Olympics. Archived from the original on 30 July 2024.
↑ "国内外86連勝の超逸材など日本女子レスリングは早くも世代交代？続々と現れる金メダル級のニューヒロインたち" [Starting with a super-talented wrestler who has won 86 consecutive victories at home and abroad, is Japan's women's wrestling already undergoing a generational change? New heroines of the gold medal caliber emerging one after another] (in Japanese). Shueisha. Archived from the original on 2021-10-10. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
↑ Burke, Patrick (6 October 2021). "Adelaine Maria Gray wins sixth title at Wrestling World Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
↑ "2021 World Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 October 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
↑ "Japan dominate second day of women's bouts at Asian Wrestling Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. 22 April 2022. Archived from the original on 22 April 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
↑ "2022 Asian Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 April 2022. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
↑ "2023 Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 March 2023. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
1 2 "2022 Asian Games Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 November 2023. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
1 2 "Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.