Further Personal Information |
| Occupation |
Athlete, Office Worker |
Sport Specific Information |
| Club / Team |
ALSOK: Japan |
Further Personal Information |
| Higher education |
Health Studies, Sport Studies - Kanazawa Gakuin University: Japan |
General Interest |
| Other sports |
She competed in gymnastics at national youth level in Japan. (sponichi.co.jp, 13 Apr 2012) |
Sport Specific Information |
| Why this sport? |
She saw a weightlifting training session and became interested in the sport. |
General Interest |
| Awards and honours |
In 2014 she received the Hyogo Prefecture Excellent Athlete Citation Award in Japan. (hyogo-c.ed.jp, 23 Feb 2015)
In 2013 she received an Excellence Award from the Japanese Weightlifting Association. (sponichi.co.jp, 22 Mar 2014)
She received an Excellence Award at the Hyogo Excellent Athlete Awards in Japan in 2012 and 2013. (hyogo-c.ed.jp, 13 Feb 2014, 07 Feb 2013)
In 2013 she received a Kobe City Special Sports Award in Japan. (netmk.jp, 15 Aug 2013) |
Sport Specific Information |
| Name of coach |
Daichi Nagayama [club], JPN; Naoyuki Kobatake [national], JPN |
| When and where did you begin this sport? |
She began weightlifting in 2008 at Suma Tomogaoka High School in Kobe, Japan. |
General Interest |
| Nicknames |
Pretty Lifter (sponichi.co.jp, 13 Apr 2012) |
| Hero / Idol |
Japanese weightlifter Hiromi Miyake. (daily.co.jp, 12 Jun 2015) |
Further Personal Information |
| Languages |
Japanese |
General Interest |
| Ambitions |
To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sankei.com, 17 Jun 2019) |
Tokyo
Rio de Janeiro
London
Pattaya
Ashgabat
Anaheim, CA
Almaty
Goyang
Tashkent
Ningbo
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