Kaori Matsumoto

is a female Japanese athlete.  She is best known as a judoka who competed in the Summer Olympic Games.SportsReference.com (SR/Olympics),  "Kaori Matsumoto" ; retrieved 2012-7-30.

She was born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa.

Career
Matsumoto won the gold medal in the lightweight (57 kg) division at the 2010 World Judo Championships.

She won gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's 57 kg category."Olympic judo: Japan's Kaori Matsumoto takes -57kg judo gold," BBC (UK). 30 July 2012; retrieved 2012-7-30.

Related pages
 Sports in Japan
 Japan at the Olympics

 References 

Other websites
 Kaori Matsumoto (JPN) at JudoInside.com

Category:1987 births
Category:Living people
Category:Olympic gold medalists for Japan
Category:Japanese judoka
Category:Sportspeople from Ishikawa Prefecture