Yoriko Okamoto
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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.
Kickboxing record
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Personal life
Okamoto is a 1996 graduate of the Waseda School of Human Sciences, and currently works at Runes Kanazawa Co. Ltd. She is a Christian.[3]
References
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External links
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- Japanese female taekwondo practitioners
- Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Japan
- Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
- Martial artists from Osaka Prefecture
- People from Kadoma, Osaka
- Japanese Christians
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in taekwondo
- Asian Games bronze medalists in taekwondo
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 1998 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
- Asian Taekwondo Championships medalists