Hidekazu Yokoyama
Japanese freestyle wrestler
横山秀和
- Born
- 7 April 1971, Akita
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Sport
- amateur wrestling
- Occupation
- amateur wrestler
- Height
- 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Hidekazu Yokoyama (横山 秀和, Yokoyama Hidekazu; born April 7, 1971 in Akita, Akita) is a retired amateur Japanese freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's light heavyweight category. He won two bronze medals in both freestyle and Greco-Roman at the Asian Games (1994 and 1998), and then represented his nation Japan in two editions of the Olympic Games (1996 and 2004). Having worked as a physical education teacher at Akita Commercial High School, Yokoyama also trained as part of the school's wrestling squad under his personal coach Katsuhiko Saito.
When Japan hosted the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, Yokoyama enchanted the home crowd inside Higashi Stadium by defeating South Korea's Yang Hyun-Mo for a bronze medal in the 82-kg division. The following year, he placed eleventh at the World Championships, and then rounded out the fourth spot in the same class at the 1996 Asian Wrestling Championships in Hangzhou, China.
Competitions
| Competition | Year | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 Summer Olympics | 1996 | |
| 1998 Asian Games | 1998 | |
| 2004 Summer Olympics | 2004 |
External links
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.