# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/iwao-horiuchi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:17:53.414Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/iwao-horiuchi"
name: "Iwao Horiuchi"
slug: "iwao-horiuchi"
description: "Iwao Horiuchi was a Japanese lightweight freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1964. He also won a world title in 1963 and finished second in 1966. He died of diabetes in March 2015, aged 73."
tagline: "Olympic medalist in wrestling"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Klaus_Rost%2C_Enyu_Valchev%2C_Iwao_Horiuchi_1964.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1941-12-09"
deathDate: "2015-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           10.67210266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "堀内岩雄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إيواو هوريوتشى"
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    title: "Iwao Horiuchi"
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    title: "ایوائو هوریوچی"
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    title: "Iwao Horiuchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwao_Horiuchi"
    title: "Iwao Horiuchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwao_Horiuchi"
    title: "Iwao Horiuchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "堀内岩雄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хориүчи Ивао"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хориути, Ивао"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump