ARAI Chizuru

Date of Birth: 1 Nov 1993

Age: 27

Gender: Female

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Judo	Women -70 kg	1
	Mixed Team JPN Japan	2

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Women -70 kg Elimination Round of 16 #19 JPN ARAI CARAI Chizuru 10s1 IPP PUR PEREZ MPEREZ Maria 0	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Women -70 kg Quarterfinal #24 JPN ARAI CARAI Chizuru 10 IPP GER SCOCCIMARRO GSCOCCIMARRO Giovanna 0	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Women -70 kg Semifinal of Table B #27 ROC TAIMAZOVA MTAIMAZOVA Madina 0s2 JPN ARAI CARAI Chizuru 10s1 IPP	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Women -70 kg Final #35 AUT POLLERES MPOLLERES Michaela 0s1 JPN ARAI CARAI Chizuru 1 WAZ	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Mixed Team Quarterfinal #3 JPN Japan 4 GER Germany 2	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Mixed Team Semifinal of Table A #6 JPN Japan 4 ROC ROC 0	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Mixed Team Final #9 JPN Japan 1 FRA France 4	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	-70 kg	Team X
2019	Tokyo, JPN	9	1
2018	Baku, AZE	1	1
2017	Budapest, HUN	1	1
2015	Astana, KAZ	5	1

World Masters

Year	Location	-70 kg
2019	Qingdao, CHN	3

Grand Slam - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	9th	16th	17th	30th-33rd
2021	-70 kg	1x	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-
2020	-70 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019	-70 kg	1x	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018	-70 kg	1x	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017	-70 kg	1x	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Prix - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2018	-70 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017	-70 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Slam, Grand Prix & World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2021	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Tashkent, UZB
1	2020	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Dusseldorf, GER
1	2019	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Baku, AZE
1	2018	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Osaka, JPN
1	2017	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
1	2017	-70 kg	Grand Prix	Dusseldorf, GER
2	2018	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
2	2017	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Tokyo, JPN
3	2021	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Kazan, RUS
3	2019	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Osaka, JPN
3	2018	-70 kg	Grand Prix	Hohhot, CHN

Occupation:

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance [Tokyo, JPN]

Masae Ueno [club], JPN; Hisashi Yanagisawa [club], JPN; Katsuyuki Masuchi [national], JPN

She took up the sport at age seven at Obusuma Judo Club in Saitama, Japan. (kodama-ob.jp, 10 Dec 2013; sankei.com, 29 Aug 2017)

She was encouraged by her brother. She was initially going to try judo at age four but felt too scared. She returned to the club at age seven because the teacher kept encouraging her to get involved in the sport. "When I went to the club, I was suddenly surrounded by a lot of older girls. It was so shocking and scary that I ran away. But I was always invited by my teacher." (judo-ch.jp, Sep 2017; tarzanweb.jp, 11 Feb 2019)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sponichi.co.jp, 23 Feb 2020; tarzanweb.jp, 11 Feb 2019)

In 2017 she was presented with the Saitama Prefecture Sports Association President Special Award in Japan. (pref.saitama.lg.jp, 18 Oct 2017)

In 2017 she received the Yorii Town Citizen Honorary Award in Japan. (jiji.com, 12 Sep 2017)

General Interest

Belt grade
Black Belt - V Dan (judo.or.jp, 13 May 2020)

Preferred techniques
Uchi-mata (sponichi.co.jp, 24 Mar 2020)

General
WEIGHT CLASS CHANGE
In 2011 she moved up from the -63kg weight class to the -70kg category during grade 12 at Kodama High School in Japan. She had been struggling to defeat a rival in the -63kg category, so her coach suggested she move up to -70kg at the end of 2010. (sponichi.co.jp, 24 Mar 2020; tarzanweb.jp, 11 Feb 2019)

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Silver Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
IPP:: Ippon
WAZ:: Waza-Ari

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