Career
Yoshida won sixteen consecutive world-level titles between 2002 and 2015, built almost entirely on a single-leg takedown that opponents knew was coming and could not stop. She carried Japan's flag at the 2012 opening ceremony.
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🤼 Wrestling · Freestyle 55 kg
Saori Yoshida
Japan · 2002–2016
Thirteen world titles and three Olympic golds.
- 13
- World titles
- 3
- Olympic golds
- 16
- Consecutive titles
- 4
- Olympic medals
Honours
- Olympic gold in 2004, 2008 and 2012
- Thirteen World Championship titles
- Sixteen consecutive world or Olympic titles
- Japan's flagbearer at the 2012 Olympics
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