Sakura Motoki

That combination stopped me cold. "Sakura" is cherry blossoms and spring and everything soft, and then you find out she's actually out there on a mat competing in wrestling. She comes from a wrestling family in Wako, Saitama, her father a Sydney Olympian, and in 2024 she let the competition speak by taking Olympic gold in Paris. Amateur wrestling doesn't come with red carpets or sponsorship deals; it comes with early mornings and repetition and losing and getting back up, and there's something genuinely cool about a Gen Z kid choosing that path. She has already reached the top of her sport, and I'm curious enough to keep watching what comes next.

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Sakura Motoki is a Japanese amateur wrestler born on February 20, 2002. She is a member of Generation Z, with her zodiac sign being Pisces and her Chinese zodiac year being the Horse. From Wako, Saitama, and the daughter of Sydney Olympian Yasutoshi Motoki, she won the gold medal in the women's 62 kg freestyle at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Name (English)

Sakura Motoki

Name (Japanese)

元木咲良

Reading

もとき さくら

Born

February 20, 2002 (age 24)

Origin

Wako, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Height

160 cm

Occupation

Amateur wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Horse

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/sakura.s2.m/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%83%E6%9C%A8%E5%92%B2%E8%89%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113911351

Tags

• Amateur wrestler

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.