Sport Specific Information |
| Club / Team |
Japan Airlines : Japan |
Further Personal Information |
| Higher education |
Sports Science - Waseda University: Tokyo, JPN |
General Interest |
| Ambitions |
To win gold in individual epee at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (hochi.news, 05 Nov 2022) |
Sport Specific Information |
| Handedness |
Right |
Further Personal Information |
| Occupation |
Airline Worker, Athlete |
| Languages |
Japanese |
General Interest |
| Other sports |
He was involved in competitive artistic gymnastics for eight years before taking up fencing. (sportie.com, 19 Mar 2021; wasedasports.com, 18 Jul 2017) |
Sport Specific Information |
| Why this sport? |
He was involved in artistic gymnastics when he was younger, but switched sports after watching Japanese fencer Yuki Ota win a silver medal in individual foil at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. He started out in foil before changing to epee while he was in high school after winning an epee tournament. |
| When and where did you begin this sport? |
He began fencing in 2008. |
International Debut |
| Year |
2014 |
| Competing for |
Japan |
General Interest |
| Hero / Idol |
Japanese fencer Yuki Ota. (city.iwakuni.lg.jp, 12 Feb 2018) |
| Hobbies |
Watching video clips on the internet. (ontrip.jal.co.jp, 08 Oct 2021) |
| Most influential person in career |
His parents, and coach Hiromi Takahashi. (chunichi.co.jp, 22 Dec 2021) |
| Milestones |
Along with Kazuya Minobe, 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) |
Sport Specific Information |
| Name of coach |
Oleksandr Gorbachuk [national], UKR |
