Yūichi Akasaka
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nation | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 29th September 1967 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Ibaraki prefecture | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 169 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 64 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: August 20, 2010 |
Yūichi Akasaka ( Japanese 赤 坂 雄 一 , Akasaka Yūichi ; born September 29, 1967 in Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a former Japanese short tracker .
Akasaka's career began in the early 1980s when he won the bronze medal as the third runner in the host relay at the 1983 World Short Track Championships in Tokyo . Even after that, Akasaka achieved further successes in the annual global title competitions; in 1985 in Amsterdam - this time as the second runner of the relay - he ensured his home country's first triumph in this discipline. He repeated this victory with other teammates in 1992 and 1994. By the mid-1990s, Akasaka won a total of six World Cup medals, five of them in the relay. The Japanese secured the only individual medal in 1990 when he tied with Briton Wilf O'Reilly in the all-around competitionfinished silver and only had to admit defeat to South Korean Lee Joon-ho .
Akasaka also gained Olympic experience in his career; both 1992 and 1994 he was used in the relay and won in this discipline together with Tatsuyoshi Ishihara , Toshinobu Kawai and Tsutomu Kawasaki 1992 in Albertville the bronze medal.
Web links
- Yūichi Akasaka in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
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SURNAME | Akasaka, Yūichi |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 赤 坂 雄 一 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese short tracker |
DATE OF BIRTH | 29th September 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ibaraki prefecture |