Shuichi Sakamoto
Shūichi Sakamoto ( Japanese 坂 本 修 一 , Sakamoto Shūichi ; born June 14, 1979 in Ishioka , Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a Japanese badminton player .
Career
Sakamoto attended the private Jōsō-Gakuin high school in Tsuchiura , to which the players Yūya Komatsuzaki , Kanako Yonekura or Shizuka Yamamoto also went. After studying at the University of Tsukuba , he joined the Nihon Unisys company in April 2002, for whose works team he has played since then. In 2003 he won the Japanese Adult Badminton Championship in doubles with Shūichi Nakao and mixed with Noriko Ōkuma . In 2005 he was Japanese champion with Shūichi Nakao at the All-Japanese Championships . In 2006 and 2008 he was able to repeat this with Shintarō Ikeda as a partner.
Shūichi Sakamoto took part in the 2008 Olympics in men's doubles. He lost it in round one together with Shintarō Ikeda and was thus 9th in the final bill. The pairing started the tournament with significantly higher expectations, as they had won bronze in doubles at the World Cup the year before.
Sporting successes
| season | event | discipline | space | Surname |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Japan: Individual Championships | Men's doubles | 1 | Shintarō Ikeda / Shūichi Sakamoto |
| 2007 | World Championship | Men's doubles | 3 | Shūichi Sakamoto / Shintarō Ikeda |
| 2008 | Olympia | Men's doubles | 9 | Shintarō Ikeda / Shūichi Sakamoto |
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- Shūichi Sakamoto in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Web links
- Profile of his team (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shuichi Sakamoto 坂 本 修 一 プ ロ フ ィ ー ル . Nihon Unisys, accessed September 21, 2013 (Japanese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sakamoto, Shuichi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 坂 本 修 一 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | japanese badminton player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ishioka , Ibaraki Prefecture |