Yayoi Urano

Urano was involved in track and field at Nakanobu Gakuen High School (中延学園高校) , as her father was a shot putter.^[1][2] After entering Nippon Sport Science University, she started Judo.^[1][3] She became captain of the Judo club and won the 61 kg weight class at the Tokyo University Championships.^[1] Furthermore, she also started Wrestling at the suggestion of Miyuu Yamamoto's father, Ikuei Yamamoto, who was a coach of the university wrestling team.^[2][3] In 1990, two years after starting wrestling, she won her first World Championships in the 75kg weight class.^[2][3] In 1991, she won the 70 kg weight class at the World Championships in Tokyo.^[1][2] She was second at the 1992 World Wrestling Championships, but won for the third time at the 1993 World Wrestling Championships.^[1][2] She then moved down to the 65kg weight class and won the World Championships for three consecutive years starting in 1994.^[1][2] She was with the sushi company Kyōtaru (京樽), but when the company went bankrupt, she went to Canada to study at the University of Alberta.^[3] There she married Japanese-Canadian wrestler Odagaki.^[3][4][5] Then she retired, partly due to a knee injury.^[1][3] In 2007, she became the second woman to be inducted into the UWW (then FILA) Hall of Fame.^[3][5] in 2013, Urano became a member of the UWW (then FILA) Women and Sport Commission.^[6]

• Yayoi Urano at the International Wrestling Database