Kaori Icho is a Japanese freestyle wrestler who won Olympic gold in the same individual weight class at four consecutive Olympic Games, from 2004 to 2016, the first woman in any sport to achieve that feat. She also went undefeated in international competition for more than a decade, one of the longest winning streaks recorded in any Olympic sport.
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Career HighlightFour-time Olympic wrestling champion (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016), the first woman in any sport to win individual gold at four consecutive Olympics. 1 Classification
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Japan, nationality there.
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1. Wikipedia, Kaori Icho
Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org lead sentence, birth-date clause: "born 13 June 1984"
born 13 June 1984
en.wikipedia.org lead sentence, birth-year figure: "born 13 June 1984"
born 13 June 1984
en.wikipedia.org lead sentence, nationality clause: "Japanese freestyle wrestler"
Japanese freestyle wrestler
en.wikipedia.org lead paragraph, career-highlight sentence
She is a ten-time World Champion and four-time Olympic Champion, winning gold in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016.
Wikipedia, article summary lead
Kaori Icho (Japanese: 伊調 馨, Hepburn: IchŠKaori; born 13 June 1984) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler.
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