Kyoko Hamaguchi

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Women's wrestling
Olympic medal record
Bronze	2004 Athens	Freestyle 72 kg

浜口京子 (Kyōko Hamaguchi, 浜口京子^?) (born 11 January 1978 in Taitō-ku, Tokyo) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler. She won the five times World Championships, and competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, winning a bronze medal in the 72 kg weight class.

She belongs to Japan Beverage Inc. and is nominated in JOC's Special Athlete Campaign.

Her father is a professional wrestler Animal Hamaguchi, who was known with fanny exaggerating gestures in Japan.

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She did swimming at the time of junior high school. Since the age of fourteen, she wanted to be a woman professional wrestler and trained in the Animal Hamaguchi's Wrestling Dojo.

She has been winning Japan Championship for 10 years from 1996 to 2006, and won the five times World Championships. In 2004 Athen Olympics, she got a bronze medal in the 72kg class. And also she honored the role of pole-toller in all the Japanese team in the opening ceremony in Athen.

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1996 - win - Japan Championship (70kg)
1997 - win - Japan Championship (70kg)
1997 - win - World Championship (75kg)
1998 - win - Japan Championship (75kg)
1998 - win - World Championship (75kg)
1998 - FILA's female wrestler of the year
1999 - win - Japan Championship (75kg)
1999 - win - World Championship (75kg)
2000 - win - Japan Championship (75kg)
2001 - win - Japan Championship (75kg)
2001 - win - East Asia Competition
2002 - win - Japan Championship (72kg)
2002 - win - World Championship (72kg)
2002 - win - Asian Games at Busan (72kg)
2003 - win - Japan Championship (72kg)
2003 - win - World Championship (72kg)
2004 - 2nd - Testing Competition for Athen Olympics (72kg)
2004 - 3rd - Athen Olympics (72kg)
2004 - win - Japan Championship (72kg)
2005 - 2nd - World Championship (72kg)
2005 - win - Japan Championship (72kg) (winning for 10 years), MVP (天皇杯 (Ten'noh-hai, 天皇杯^?))