Yuhi Fujinami (藤波勇飛, Fujinami Yuhi, born May 27, 1996) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler. His younger sister is 2021 World Wrestling Championships and 2024 Summer Olympics women's 50 kg gold medalist Akari Fujinami.[2]

He won bronze medals at the 2017 World Championships and 2018 Asian Games.[3][4] He missed the 2018 World Championships due to an injury.[1]

He took up wrestling aged eight at the wrestling gym of his father, Toshikazu Fujinami, a wrestling coach and a former wrestler. He has a degree in law from the Yamanashi Gakuin University.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Yuhi Fujinami. asiangames2018.id
  2. ^ "17歳藤波朱理が初出場V 兄は17年世界選手権銅" [17-year-old Akari Fujinami won the World Championships in her first appearance. Her brother won bronze at the 2017 World Championships]. Nikkan Sports (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan. 2020-12-20. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  3. ^ "2017 World Wrestling Championships" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 May 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). 2018 Asian Games. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
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