Perseverance and a father’s steering: Akari Fujinami’s journey to gold

Akari Fujinami, the 20-year-old wrestling juggernaut who clinched the gold medal within the girls’s 53-kg freestyle occasion Thursday, owes a lot of her success to the relentless coaching she underwent along with her father, Toshikazu.

Fujinami, who entered the Games with a 130-0 file, achieved her long-awaited victory within the Olympics on the Paris Games after overcoming an harm she suffered in March.

“I do not pay an excessive amount of consideration to my file,” Fujinami stated after profitable gold, in response to Reuters. “I simply need to develop into stronger.