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Occupation Athlete, Office Worker
Languages Japanese
Higher education Politics - Hosei University: Tokyo, JPN
License number 15071987003
Club
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Cup | 3 | - | - | 3 | |
| Tallin (ESTONIA), 2015-11-13 | |||||
| Heidenheim (GERMANY), 2018-01-25 | |||||
| Berne (SWITZERLAND), 2018-11-23 | |||||
| World Championship | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Le Caire (EGYPT), 2022-07-16 | |||||
| Zone Championships | - | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Singapore (SINGAPORE), 2015-06-25 | |||||
| Wuxi (CHINA), 2016-04-13 | |||||
| Grand Prix | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | |
| Budapest (HUNGARY), 2019-03-08 | Budapest (HUNGARY), 2017-03-24 | ||||
| Cali (COLOMBIA), 2019-05-03 |
When and where did you begin this sport? He began fencing at high school in Echizen, Japan. He initially took up foil, but switched to epee after starting university.
Why this sport? He was involved in karate for six years while he was in primary school, and played volleyball in middle school. He began fencing at high school following encouragement from his father.
Club / Team Nexus: Japan
Handedness Left
Year 2008
Competing for Japan
Tournament World Cup
Location Montreal, QC, CAN
Nicknames Kazu (nexus-group.jp, 19 May 2015)
Hero / Idol Japanese feudal lord Nobunaga Oda. (gunosy.com, 22 May 2019)
Injuries In March 2021 he sustained a hernia. He put off surgery until after the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, where he won gold in team epee. (Instagram profile, 17 Nov 2021, 10 Sep 2021)
He sustained injuries to his neck and his shoulders at the 2016 World Cup event in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (sankei.com, 15 Feb 2016)
Sporting philosophy / motto "The most important thing in my life is to not set limits for myself. You develop by overcoming such limits." (FIE Fencing Channel YouTube channel, 03 Aug 2020)
Milestones Along with Koki Kano, Masaru Yamada, and Satoru Uyama, he was part of the men's epee team that won Japan's first gold medal in any fencing discipline at the Olympic Games. They beat ROC in the final at the 2020 Games in Tokyo. (SportsDeskOnline, 09 Apr 2022; mainichi.jp, 30 Jul 2021)
Ambitions To win individual and team gold in epee at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (nikkansports.com, 10 Aug 2021)
Other information ATHLETE REPRESENTATIVE
In August 2017 he was voted onto the International Fencing Federation [FIE] athletes' commission. In 2019 he began serving as a member of the athletes' committee of the Japanese Fencing Federation. (fencing-jpn.jp, 05 Dec 2019; fie.org, 04 Aug 2017)
AMBIDEXTROUS
He is naturally right-handed, but trained himself to fence left-handed. (hochi.news, 31 Jul 2021)
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