Kiyomi Kato (wrestler)

Kiyomi Kato (加藤喜代美, Katō Kiyomi) (born March 8, 1948, in Asahikawa)^[1] is a Japanese wrestler and Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling.

Olympics

Kato competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich where he received a gold medal in freestyle wrestling, the flyweight class.^[2]

Olympic Champions in freestyle flyweight

1904: George Mehnert (USA) 1948: Lennart Viitala (FIN) 1952: Hasan Gemici (TUR) 1956: Mirian Tsalkalamanidze (URS) 1960: Ahmet Bilek (TUR) 1964: Yoshikatsu Yoshida (JPN) 1968: Shigeo Nakata (JPN) 1972: Kiyomi Kato (JPN) 1976: Yuji Takada (JPN) 1980: Anatoly Beloglazov (URS) 1984: Shaban Terstena (YUG) 1988: Mitsuru Sato (JPN) 1992: Ri Hak-son (PRK) 1996: Valentin Yordanov (BUL) 2000: Namig Abdullayev (AZE)

−52.16 kg (1904) −52 kg (1948–1996) −54 kg (2000)

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