Personal Information
Residence Tokyo, JPN
Occupation Athlete, Office Worker
Languages Japanese
Higher education Physical Education - Nihon University: Tokyo, JPN
License number 01111994001
Club
Sport Specific Information
When and where did you begin this sport? She took up fencing while in the eighth grade at middle school in 2008.
Why this sport? She became interested in competing at the Olympic Games after watching the Japanese women's softball team win gold at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. "I started aiming for the Olympic Games because it was such an impressive stage. However, there weren't many options to become a softball player and when I started to investigate how to get to the Olympics, I learned that there was a fencing class in Numazu [Japan]. There aren't many athletes competing in epee so if you get good results, you are more likely to participate in the Olympics."
Club / Team Netz Toyota Shizuoka: Japan
Name of coach Oleksandr Gorbachuk [national], UKR
Handedness Right
General Interest
Hobbies Food, travelling. (fpa.media, 22 Feb 2022)
Sporting philosophy / motto "The future is the result of the present." (sankei.com, 01 Jan 2021)
Ambitions To compete at the 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games. (sankei.com, 01 Jan 2021)
Other information FURTHER EDUCATION
She has studied on a distance learning programme in education through Tamagawa University in Japan. (Facebook profile, 01 Jan 2022; sankei.com, 01 Jan 2021)
