Kenki Sato

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Kenki Satō at the International Whitsun Tournament Wiesbaden 2013

Kenki Satō ( Japanese 佐藤 賢 希 , Satō Kenki ; born July 11, 1984 in Ogawa in Nagano Prefecture , Japan ) is a Zen Buddhist monk who ranked 12th as an eventing rider at the Summer Olympics in London with the Japanese team occupied.

Private

Kenki is a member of a Japanese equestrian and priest family. He grew up with his siblings in the mountain village of Ogawa in the 450 year old Buddhist temple complex Myōshō-ji ( 明松 寺 ).

He studied law at Meiji University in Tokyo.

Equestrian life

Kenki Satō with Chippieh at the International Whitsun Tournament Wiesbaden 2013

Kenki has been riding since he was seven. In his childhood, automobiles did not reach the temple deep in the mountains, but horses were used for locomotion and transportation. His father Shōdō ( 佐藤 正道 ) is abbot ( jūshoku ) of the temple and was nominated in 1980 as a member of the Japanese equestrian team for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, but he could not take part because of the Olympic boycott at the time. Next to the temple there is a riding facility, where his father Shōdō and his brother Eiken , his sister Tae ( 佐藤 泰 ) and Kenki train on horses. Tae won a national equestrian competition five times. Eiken, also a Zen priest, was a member of the Japanese show jumping team for the 2008 Summer Olympics . The equestrian competitions took place in Hong Kong .

Equestrian sport

Kenki decided not to take part in the 2008 Summer Olympics to complete his priestly training.

After his ordination in 2010, he went to the German Olympic participant Dirk Schrade in Sprockhövel to prepare for his 2012 Olympic participation. Since summer 2011 he has been training in Horb -Altheim with the 2012 Olympic champion, world and European champion of eventing rider Michael Jung . Kenki's wife Kiyo, who is responsible for looking after his horses, and their two children as well as his horses Chippieh and Toy Boy now also live in Altheim .

As a participant in the 16th Asian Games in 2010 in Guangzhou , China , he won the gold medal in the individual eventing competition.

At the 2012 Olympic Games he was 15th with his horse Chippieh after the dressage. In the field , however, he fell, which meant the premature end of the competition for him. The Japanese team reached 12th place.

After taking part in the Olympics, he wanted to stay in Germany until winter 2012 and then return to Ogawa. According to Michael Jung's father, however, this plan was rejected: “Kenki cried bitterly in the stable. The next day his parents, who were here in London, came to me and asked if Kenki could continue to be Michael's student, his goal being the 2014 World Cup and the Rio Games . ”So Satō will continue to be based in Germany .

Web links

Commons : Kenki Satō  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b london2012.com : Kenki Sato , in English, accessed July 26, 2012
  2. ↑ shambhalasun.com : Kenki Sato, a Japanese Zen monk, to compete in London 2012 , in English, accessed on July 26, 2012
  3. ↑ derwesten.de : Kenki Sato, the riding monk , from July 31, 2012, accessed on August 1, 2012
  4. ↑ examiner.com : Buddhist monk to compete in the 2012 London Olympics , July 14, 2012, in English, accessed July 26, 2012
  5. ↑ a b c abendzeitung-muenchen.de : Curious: Buddhist monk at Olympia , from July 11, 2012, accessed on July 26, 2012
  6. ↑ dawn.com : Olympics: Meditating Buddhist monk saddles up for London , July 10, in English, accessed July 26, 2012
  7. ↑ japandailypress.com ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Buddha Shines: Horse-riding Monk preps for Olympics 2012 , June 11, 2012, in English, accessed July 26, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / japandailypress.com
  8. ↑ schwarzwaelder-bote.de : Riding monk lives dream in Altheim , from May 4, 2012, accessed on July 26, 2012
  9. ↑ zimbio.com : Kenki Sato , in English, accessed on July 26, 2012
  10. ↑ Result of the individual evaluation of versatility at the 2012 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.london2012.com
  11. ↑ Result of the team rating eventing at the Olympic Games 2012 ( Memento of the original from December 9th, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.london2012.com
  12. ↑ Olympic champion Michael Jung: Everyday life instead of a trip to Africa , Thomas Borgmann / Stuttgarter Zeitung , August 1, 2012
  13. ↑ Sandra Auffahrt and Michi Jung in the doping test , reitturniere.de, July 31, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Sato, kenki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 佐藤 賢 希 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese eventing rider
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Ogawa , Japan