Ayumi Tanimoto (谷本 歩実, Tanimoto Ayumi) born August 4, 1981, in Anjo, Aichi, is a Japanese judoka. She was coached by Toshihiko Koga, who is a gold medalist at the Barcelona Olympics and a silver medalist at the Atlanta Olympics Men's Judo. Tanimoto won the Women's -63 kg category gold medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
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Born | (1981-08-04) 4 August 1981 (age 41) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Judoka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Judo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | –63 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In September 2005, she won the silver medal at the World judo championship games in Cairo, Egypt.
Tanimoto retired from competitive judo in September 2010.[1] In 2015, she became the assistant manager of Komatsu's judo club.[2] For the Rio 2016 Olympics, she was a coach for the women's judo team.[3] She is completing a postgraduate degree at Hirosaki University, and listed as a women's junior coach for the All Japan Judo Federation.[4] Additionally, she was a board member of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee.[5][6]
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