Profile details
- Born
- 6 Sep 1971
- Birthplace
- Kadoma
- Country
- Japan
- Height
- 169 cm
- Weight
- 67 kg
- Sport
- Taekwondo
- Discipline
- Combat
- Category
- Women
- Status
- Active
District, playing style, coach, academy, national ranking and international ranking are not yet recorded for this athlete.
Honours & Awards
- No recorded honours or awards.
Competition Appearances
4 recorded appearances, most significant first.
- ·2008 Summer Olympics
- ·2004 Summer Olympics
- ·2000 Summer Olympics – women's 67 kg
- ·1998 Asian Games
Career Timeline
- 1998Competed at 1998 Asian Games
- 2000Competed at taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics – women's 67 kg
- 2004Competed at 2004 Summer Olympics
- 2008Competed at 2008 Summer Olympics
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About
Yoriko Okamoto (岡本 依子, Okamoto Yoriko; born September 6, 1971 in Kadoma, Osaka) is the first Japanese athlete to become an Olympic taekwondo medalist, winning the bronze medal at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics in the 57–67 kg weight class. After beginning karate at age 12, she attended Waseda University in Tokyo. She spent her junior year of college studying abroad in the United States at the University of Oregon, where she began learning Taekwondo.
Biography adapted from Yoriko Okamoto on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.