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Yuji Takada

Takada (right) at the 1973 World Championships
Personal information
Born	(1954-02-17) February 17, 1954 (age 70) Ota, Gunma, Japan
Height	162 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Sport
Sport	Freestyle wrestling
Medal record Men's freestyle wrestling Representing  Japan Olympic Games 1976 Montreal 52 kg 1984 Los Angeles 52 kg World Championships 1974 Istanbul 52 kg 1975 Minsk 52 kg 1977 Lausanne 52 kg 1979 San Diego 52 kg 1973 Tehran 52 kg Asian Games 1974 Tehran 52 kg 1978 Bangkok 52 kg

Yuji Takada (高田 裕司, Takada Yūji, born February 17, 1954) is a retired Japanese flyweight freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics and won a gold and a bronze medal, respectively. Takada held the world title in 1974, 1975, 1977 and 1979. In 2005 he was inducted into the FILA Hall of Fame.

References

1. Yuji Takada. sports-reference.com
2. "Takada, Yuji (JPN)". iat.uni-leipzig.de. Archived from the original on 24 June 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
3. Yuji Takada. unitedworldwrestling.org

External links

• Yuji Takada at the International Wrestling Database
• Yuji Takada at Olympics.com
• Yuji Takada at Olympedia (archive)

v t e 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:  Šaban Trstena (YUG) 1988:  Mitsuru Sato (JPN) 1992:  Ri Hak-son (PRK) 1996:  Valentin Yordanov (BUL) 2000:  Namig Abdullayev (AZE)
1904: 52.16 kg 1948–1996: 52 kg 2000: 54 kg

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