Japanese wrestler celebrates gold medal by body-slamming her coach

Published Nov. 15, 2016 2:13 p.m. ET

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Brett Smiley

After a dominating victory over Belarus' Maryia Mamashuk in the women's 63-kg freestyle final on Thursday, Japan's Risako Kawai rejoiced by sending her coach to the mat.

“Before the final, the coach [Kazuhito Sakae] said he wanted me to lift him on his shoulders,” Kawai said. “The three wrestlers the previous day all won gold so they got to do that, and I said I wanted to be first to slam him and he let me do it.”

The overjoyed 21-year-old actually threw Sakae twice. Check it out:

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