Tomiaki Fukuda
Fukuda at the 1965 World Championships | ||||||||||||
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| Born | December 19, 1941 | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Freestyle wrestling | |||||||||||
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Tomiaki Fukuda (福田 富昭, Fukuda Tomiaki; born December 19, 1941)[1] is a Japanese sports official and retired freestyle wrestler who won the world bantamweight title in 1965.[2] He is vice president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, where he heads the National Training Center Commission. He is also president of Japan Wrestling Federation and vice president of the International Federation of Associated Wrestling (FILA).[3] He served as chef de mission for the Japanese teams at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2005 East Asian Games.[4]
Awards and honors
- 2025 - Person of Cultural Merit[5]
References
- ^ 福田富昭. japan-wrestling.jp
- ^ Fukuda, Tomiaki (JPN). iat.uni-leipzig.de
- ^ Tomiaki FUKUDA. unitedworldwrestling.org
- ^ Executives of the JOC. joc.or.jp
- ^ "王貞治氏ら8人に文化勲章 功労者に坂茂氏ら". The Nikkei (in Japanese). October 18, 2025. Retrieved October 18, 2025.