was a Japanese freestyle wrestler who won a gold medal at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

. He was the first Japanese gold medalist after World War II, the only Japanese gold medalist at the 1952 Olympics, and one of two Japanese medalists in wrestling at the 1952 Olympics, the other being flyweight

Yushu Kitano was a Japanese freestyle wrestler. He won silver medals at the 1952 Olympics, 1954 World Championships and 1954 Asian Games. In retirement he worked as a wrestling coach and in this capacity attended the 1960 Olympics. In 2016, he died of a hea ...

, who won silver in freestyle. Ishii took wrestling because there was no judo club around. He died of kidney cancer, aged 53.

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* * * 1926 births 1980 deaths Olympic wrestlers for Japan Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Japanese male sport wrestlers Olympic gold medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics 20th-century Japanese people {{Japan-wrestling-bio-stub