Saori Yoshida is a Japanese wrestler. Starting in 1998 she won every major competition, including three Olympic Games, four Asian Games, and 13 world championships, and became the most decorated athlete in freestyle wrestling history. As of 2014, Yoshida had only two senior career losses, to Marcie Van Dusen (0–2) on January 20, 2008 at the Team World Cup series, and to Valeria Zholobova (1–2) on May 27, 2012 at the World Cup.
Yoshida was the flagbearer for Japan at the 2006 Asian Games and at the 2012 Olympics. In 2007 she became the first female wrestler to be named Japanese Athlete of the Year, and in 2012 she received the People's Honour Award. Edit Biography