Yūichi Akasaka

Yūichi Akasaka
nation	Japan
birthday	29th September 1967
place of birth	Ibaraki prefecture
size	169 cm
Weight	64 kg
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 3 × 1 × 2 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1992 Albertville 5000 m relay  Short track world championships bronze 1983 Tokyo 5000 m relay gold 1985 Amsterdam 5000 m relay bronze 1986 Chamonix 5000 m relay silver 1990 Amsterdam All-around gold 1992 Denver 5000 m relay gold 1994 Guildford 5000 m relay
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 )