Rikako Yuasa is a Japanese submission grappler and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, born on 12 April 1991 in Saitama, Japan. She swam from the age of four and was picked for the Junior Olympics, then took up freestyle wrestling and judo in secondary school and found jiu-jitsu at an MMA gym in Kawaguchi. She won European and Asian titles as a purple belt in 2012, her first world title as a brown belt in 2014, and was promoted to black belt by Yukinori Sasa that June. In 2015 she became the first Japanese athlete to win a black belt world title, and she won the world championship again in 2016, 2017 and 2018, besides winning ADCC Asia events and competing in Tokyo grappling shows.
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one of the greatest Japanese BJJ fighters
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born 12 April 1991
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She started Swimming from the age of four
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one of the greatest Japanese BJJ fighters
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is a submission grappler and Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) black belt competitor
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is a submission grappler
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win gold again at the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship in 2016, 2017 and 2018
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