Akari Ogata (緒方 亜香里, Ogata Akari; born 24 September 1990) is a Japanese judoka.
Ogata started taking part in karate at the age of 7 and she became national junior karate champion when she was 10, but at age 13, she quit karate and started to practice judo.[1]
Ogata won a bronze medal in the half-heavyweight (78 kg) division at the 2010 World Judo Championships, and silver a year later.[2] She has also won silver at the 2010 Asian Games. Ogata had previously won the 2009 World Juniors Championships in that weight division.[2]
Ogata's favorite techniques are uchimata, ōuchi gari and sankaku-jime.
She started her MMA career in 2022 with a fight in the Japanese MMA league Shooto, during which time she fought once and won by referee stoppage. After that she competed in a Shooto Colors grappling event and won by Kimuraarmlock. As of early 2024 she has been competing in ONE Championship.[3] Her standing in ONE Championship is 1 win by TKO.
Ogata works as a Judo therapist.[4]
Mixed martial arts record
References
External links
- Akari Ogata at the International Judo Federation
- Akari Ogata at JudoInside.com
- Akari Ogata at Sherdog
- Akari Ogata at Tapology.com
- Akari Ogata at Olympics.com
- Akari Ogata at Olympedia
- Akari Ogata at InterSportStats
- Akari Ogata at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Akari Ogata at The-Sports.org
- Akari Ogata on Instagram
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Japanese female judoka
- Asian Games silver medalists in judo
- Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic judoka for Japan
- Judoka at the 2010 Asian Games
- Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
- Japanese female mixed martial artists
- Mixed martial artists utilizing judo
- 21st-century Japanese sportswomen
- Japanese judo biography stubs