Yoriko Okamoto

Japanese taekwondo practitioner

Yoriko Okamoto
Medal record
Women's taekwondo
Representing Japan
Olympic Games
	2000 Sydney	67 kg
Asian Games
	1998 Bangkok	Lightweight
Asian Championships
	1994 Manila	Welterweight
	1996 Melbourne	Welterweight
	1998 Ho Chi Minh City	Welterweight
	2006 Bangkok	Welterweight

Yoriko Okamoto (岡本依子, Okamoto Yoriko, born September 6, 1971 in Kadoma, Osaka) is the first Japanese athlete to become an Olympic taekwondo medalist, winning the bronze medal at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics in the 57–67 kg weight class.^[1]

After beginning karate at age 12, she attended Waseda University in Tokyo. She spent her junior year of college studying abroad in the United States at the University of Oregon, where she began learning Taekwondo.

Kickboxing record

Kickboxing record^[2]
Date	Result	Opponent	Event	Location	Method	Round	Time
0 wins, 1 losses, 0 draws
1993-12-19	Loss	Lucia Rijker	K-2 Grand Prix '93	Tokyo, Japan	TKO (right low kick)	2	0:38
Legend: Win Loss Draw/No contest Notes

Personal life

Okamoto is a 1996 graduate of the Waseda School of Human Sciences, and currently works at Runes Kanazawa Co. Ltd. She is a Christian.^[3]

References

^ "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Taekwondo" Archived 2008-08-23 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on August 9, 2010)
^ Women's kickboxing results
^ "NEW DAWN IN THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN". FCA. 9 July 2021.