Akari Ogata

Akari Ogata (緒方 亜香里) is a Japanese judoka.

Ogata started taking part in karate at the age of 7 and she became national junior karate champion when she was 10, but at age 13, she quit karate and started to practice judo.

Ogata won a bronze medal in the half-heavyweight (78 kg) division at the 2010 World Judo Championships, and silver a year later. She has also won silver at the 2010 Asian Games. Ogata had previously won the 2009 World Juniors Championships in that weight division.

Ogata's favorite techniques are uchimata, ōuchi gari and sankaku-jime.

She started her MMA career in 2022 with a fight in the Japanese MMA league Shooto, during which time she fought once and won by referee stoppage. After that she competed in a Shooto Colors grappling event and won by Kimura armlock. As of early 2024 she has been competing in ONE Championship. Her standing in ONE Championship is 1 win by via TKO.

Ogata works as a Judo therapist.

Mixed martial arts record

 * Win
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 * Khozhiniso Komoldinova
 * TKO (punches)
 * ONE Friday Fights 57
 * March 29 2024
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 * Bangkok, Thailand
 * Catchweight (163 lb) bout.
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