Mitsuru Sato

In this Japanese name, the family name is Satō.

Mitsuru Sato (佐藤満, Satō Mitsuru, born 21 October 1961) is a Japanese wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.

Olympics

Sato competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul where he received a gold medal in Freestyle wrestling, the flyweight class.^[1]

Olympic Champions in freestyle flyweight

1904: George Mehnert (USA) 1948: Lennart Viitala (FIN) 1952: Hasan Gemici (TUR) 1956: Mirian Tsalkalamanidze (URS) 1960: Ahmet Bilek (TUR) 1964: Yoshikatsu Yoshida (JPN) 1968: Shigeo Nakata (JPN) 1972: Kiyomi Kato (JPN) 1976: Yuji Takada (JPN) 1980: Anatoly Beloglazov (URS) 1984: Shaban Terstena (YUG) 1988: Mitsuru Sato (JPN) 1992: Ri Hak-son (PRK) 1996: Valentin Yordanov (BUL) 2000: Namig Abdullayev (AZE)

−52.16 kg (1904) −52 kg (1948–1996) −54 kg (2000)

Asian Games Wrestling Champions in Men's Freestyle Flyweight

1954–1994: 52 kg 1998: 54 kg

1954: Din Muhammad (PAK) 1958: Ryoji Yoshida (JPN) 1962: Noriyuki Harada (JPN) 1966: Shigeo Nakata (JPN) 1970: Mohammad Ghorbani (IRI) 1974: Ebrahim Javadi (IRI) 1978: Yuji Takada (JPN) 1982: Toshio Asakura (JPN) 1986: Mitsuru Sato (JPN) 1990: Oveis Mallah (IRI) 1994: Maulen Mamyrov (KAZ) 1998: Jin Ju-dong (PRK)

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