Ryoko Tani
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Medal record | ||
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Weemen's Judo | ||
Representin Japan | ||
Olympic Gemmes | ||
2000 Sydney | - 48kg | |
2004 Athens | - 48kg | |
1992 Barcelona | - 48kg | |
1996 Atlanta | - 48kg | |
2008 Beijing | - 48kg | |
Warld Championships | ||
1993 Hamilton | -48 kg | |
1995 Chiba | -48 kg | |
1997 Paris | -48 kg | |
1999 Birmingham | -48 kg | |
2001 Munich | -48 kg | |
2003 Osaka | -48 kg | |
2007 Rio de Janeiro | -48 kg | |
1991 Barcelona | -48 kg | |
Asie Gemmes | ||
1994 Hiroshima | -48 kg | |
Asian Championships | ||
1991 Osaka | -48 kg | |
Universiade | ||
1995 Fukuoka | -48 kg |
Ryoko Tani (谷 亮子 Tani Ryōko, née Tamura (田村), born September 6, 1975 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka) is a Japanese female umwhile judoka an current (2012) politeecian.
She uised tae wirk for Toyota Motor Corporation.
Career
[eedit | eedit soorce]She is kent as 'Yawara-chan'or 'Tawara' (frae the title character o Yawara!, a popular judo manga). Syne she wan the Internaitional Weemen's Judo Championships in 1990, 'Yawara-chan' haes gone on tae win the event ilka year.[citation needit] She haes a record seiven warld titles an she brocht hame the 48 kg-category gowd medal frae Sydney Olympics in 2000 an the Athens Olympics in 2004.
Her 84-match winnin streak wis finally brakit in 1996 bi North Korea's Kye Sun Hui. She hauds a fowert dan.
In 2003, she mairret Yoshitomo Tani, an Olympian an professional basebaw player then wi the Orix Blue Wave (nou wi the Yomiuri Giants). The weddin reception reportitly cost $3 million.[1]
In Beijing in 2008 Tani, that haedna been beat in a major internaitional competition syne the Atlanta Gemms in 1996, saw her hopes o a third-stracht gowd evaporate when judges awairded penalty pynts tae Romanie's Alina Dumitru efter baith competitors failt tae shaw ower muckle aggression. Leukin stunned, Tani focht desperately efter the final controversial penalty caw, but wi anely seiconts left she haed nae time tae munt an attack.[2]
She defeatit Roushie's Lyudmila Bogdanova for bronze. She gaint her fift Olympic medal wi the bronze.
Along wi Cuba's Driulys González an Australie's Mária Pekli, Tani becam in 2008 the first female judoka tae compete at five Olympics. The anely ither judokas tae compete at five Olympics are Belgian Robert Van de Walle an Puerto Rican judoka-bobsledder Jorge Bonnet.
See as weel
[eedit | eedit soorce]Notes
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Martin, Alex, "DPJ to field judo star Tani as candidate", Japan Times, May 10, 2010, p. 1.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 6 Juin 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2021.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Ryoko Tani at Sports-Reference.com
- Ryoko Tani official page Archived 2013-04-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)
- International Olympic Committee
- Videos of Ryoko Tani (judovision.org)
- 1975 births
- Livin fowk
- Japanese judoka
- Olympic judoka o Japan
- Olympic gowd medallists for Japan
- Olympic siller medallists for Japan
- Olympic bronze medallists for Japan
- Judoka at the 1992 Simmer Olympics
- Judoka at the 1996 Simmer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2000 Simmer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2004 Simmer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2008 Simmer Olympics
- Toyota fowk
- Japanese sportsfowk–politeecians
- Female memmers o the Hoose o Councillors
- Democratic Pairty o Japan politeecians
- Fowk frae Fukuoka (ceety)
- Olympic medallists in judo
- Asie Gemmes medallists in judo