# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yushu-kitano
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:07:32.582Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yushu-kitano"
name: "Yushu Kitano"
slug: "yushu-kitano"
description: "Yushu Kitano  was a Japanese freestyle wrestler. In his weight category of under 52 kg, 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 heart attack, aged 85."
tagline: "Olympic medalist in wrestling"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yushu_Kitano_1952.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1930-04-14"
deathDate: "2016-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.67
  momentum:             1.512605042016807
  historical:           12.004932
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E9%87%8E%E7%A5%90%E7%A7%80"
    title: "北野祐秀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yushu_Kitano"
    title: "Yushu Kitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABsh%C5%AB_Kitano"
    title: "Yūshū Kitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yushu_Kitano"
    title: "Yushu Kitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yushu_Kitano"
    title: "Yushu Kitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%88_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "یوشو کیتانو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABsh%C5%AB_Kitano"
    title: "Yūshū Kitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yushu_Kitano"
    title: "Yushu Kitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yushu_Kitano"
    title: "Yushu Kitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E9%87%8E%E7%A5%90%E7%A7%80"
    title: "北野祐秀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D0%AE%D2%AF%D1%88%D2%AF"
    title: "Китано Юүшү"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yushu_Kitano"
    title: "Yushu Kitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABsh%C5%AB_Kitano"
    title: "Yūshū Kitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%2C_%D0%AE%D1%81%D1%8E"
    title: "Китано, Юсю"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982439"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump