Kyōko Iwasaki

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Kyōko Iwasaki ( Japanese 岩崎 恭子 , Iwasaki Kyōko ; born July 21, 1978 in Numazu , Shizuoka Prefecture ) is a former Japanese swimmer .

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , she was Olympic champion over 200 m breaststroke. This was to be the only great success of her career.

The astronomer Makio Akiyama named the asteroid (35441) Kyoko, discovered in 1998, after her.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (35001) - (40000). In: IAU Minor Planet Center. IAU, accessed May 21, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Iwasaki, Kyōko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 岩崎 恭子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Numazu , Shizuoka Prefecture