Yoshihisa Yoshikawa

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Yoshihisa Yoshikawa medal table
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa with Alexei Guschtschin and Machmud Umarov at the medal ceremony in 1960 (from left to right)
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa with Alexei Guschtschin and Machmud Umarov at the medal ceremony in 1960 (from left to right)

Sport shooting

JapanJapan Japan
Olympic games
bronze Rome 1960 Free pistol 50 m
bronze Tokyo 1964 Free pistol 50 m
World championships
silver Cairo 1962 Free pistol 50 m
Asian Games
gold Jakarta 1962 Free pistol 50 m
gold Bangkok 1966 Free pistol 50 m
gold Bangkok 1970 Large caliber pistol (M)
gold Bangkok 1970 Free pistol 50 m (M)

Yoshihisa Yoshikawa ( Japanese 吉川 貴 久 , Yoshikawa Yoshihisa ; born September 4, 1936 in Fukuoka ; † October 12, 2019 ) was a Japanese marksman .

successes

Yoshihisa Yoshikawa took part in the Olympics four times with the free pistol . At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , he qualified eleventh in the second qualifying group with 350 points for the final round, in which he scored 552 points. He was level on points with Machmud Umarov behind Alexei Gushchin in second place. About winning the silver medal decided a jump-off in which Umarow prevailed with 26 to 20 points against Yoshikawa, so that he received the bronze medal. This was the first medal in shooting in Olympic history of Japan . 1964 in Tokyo Yoshikawa was again among the best shooters when he achieved the third-best result with 554 points. Even Johann Garreis came to 554 points, so Yoshikawa had in a jump-off for an Olympic medal again. This time it was he who won the duel, the play-off ended 26:24 in his favor. With that he received the bronze medal again behind Väinö Markkanen and Franklin Green . Four years later he stayed twelve points behind the medal ranks in Mexico City and finished the competition with 548 points in 17th place. When he last participated in the Olympics in Munich , he did not get past 25th place with 545 points.

In 1962 Yoshikawa was runner-up in the individual competition in Cairo behind Wladimir Stolypin with the free pistol . On the continental level, he won the Asian Championship in Tokyo in 1967 with the free pistol and took second place in Seoul four years later . At the Asian Games in Jakarta in 1962 he won the gold medal in the same discipline, a success that he repeated again in Bangkok in 1966 . Four years later , also in Bangkok, he took first place in the team competition with the large-caliber pistol. In addition, he also won the gold medal in the team competition with the Free Pistol.

Yoshikawa was a police officer. He died of heart failure on October 12, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yoshihisa Yoshikawa. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  2. ^ Shooting at the 1960 Roma Summer Games: Men's Free Pistol, 50 meters Final Round. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Shooting at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Free Pistol, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Shooting at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games: Mixed Free Pistol, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Shooting at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Mixed Free Pistol, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Yoshihisa YOSHIKAWA. In: issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation , accessed November 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ 東京 五 輪 射 撃 銅 メ ダ リ ス ト の 吉川貴 久 さ ん 死去 ８３ 歳. In: asahi.com. Asahi Shimbun , October 12, 2019, accessed November 7, 2019 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Yoshikawa, Yoshihisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 吉川 貴 久 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese marksman
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Fukuoka , Japan
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 2019