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

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in ...

. He was the first Japanese gold medalist after

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, 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, who won silver in freestyle. Ishii took up 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 sportsmen Sport wrestlers from Tokyo {{Japan-wrestling-bio-stub