Queen of Japanese Wrestling Saori Yoshida Breaking Record
Saori Yoshida won her sixteenth world or Olympic freestyle title Wednesday night at the World Wrestling Championships. She is so strong and simply the best woman wrestler in the world.
She has the record of winning the greatest number of medals in wrestling history. the 32-year-old Yoshida won her thirteenth title at universes - to run with three Olympic golds in the same number of tries - by beating Sweden's Sofia Mattsson 2-1 at 53 kg.
Yoshida encouraged in the wake of trailing 1-0 after the first period. She has just lost twice in international competition. She has done well to keep that record too.
"I thought I might lose the match because everybody is doing research about my game and that made the fight even more difficult against tough opponent. " Yoshida said after the game.
Yoshida's 22-year-old teammate, Erin Tosaka, won her third sequential world title at 48 kg by beating Mariya Stadnyk of Azerbaijan 3-2 on a take down in the last 10 seconds of the match.
"I wanted to win the match and smile together with my younger teammate" Yoshida also added.
This record breaking win of Yoshida is delighting many Japanese. Many feels that she is the strongest and Japanese are very proud of her. The top 5 athlete and the country of this competition will be given the seats in the 2016 Olympic. Japanese wrestling association announced that the medalist of the competition will represent Japan for Olympic. Therefore this win means big to Yoshida. She has selected to represent Japan for Olympic in Rio De Janeiro in 2016. Expects for the queen is high by many Japanese in Rio too.Erin Tosaka got qualified as well for the Rio Olympic together with Yoshida.
