YAZAWA Aki

Olympic Games

Year	Location	K1
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	20

World Championships

Year	Location	K1	C1	K1 Team	C1 Team
2019	La Seu d'Urgell, ESP	18	-	13	-
2018	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	19	-	8	-
2017	Pau, FRA	34	49	8	10
2015	London, GBR	25	-	11	-
2014	McHenry, MD, USA	34	18	13	-
2013	Prague, CZE	25	27	11	-
2011	Bratislava, SVK	38	-	8	-
2010	Tacen, SLO	34	-	14	-

Asian Games

Year	Location	K1
2018	Indonesia	1

Oceania Open Championships

Year	Location	K1
2019	Penrith, NSW, AUS	17

World Cup - Overview per season since 2017

Year	Event	Standings	Three best ranks per season
2020	Kayak	-	1 x 7th
2019	Kayak	30th	1 x 14th, 1 x 19th, 1 x 30th
2018	Kayak	39th	1 x 16th, 2 x 32nd, 1 x 34th
2017	Kayak	34th	1 x 20th, 1 x 23rd, 1 x 34th
2017	Canoe	58th	1 x 32nd, 1 x 36th, 1 x 48th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location
7	2020	Kayak	Tacen, SLO
14	2019	Kayak	Tacen, SLO
16	2018	Kayak	Tacen, SLO
19	2019	Kayak	Bratislava, SVK
20	2017	Kayak	Ivrea, ITA
23	2017	Kayak	Markkleeberg, GER
30	2019	Kayak	Prague, CZE
32	2018	Kayak	Augsburg, GER
32	2018	Kayak	Liptovsky Mikulas, SVK
32	2017	Canoe	Augsburg, GER

Legend
IP - In Progress, C - Canoe, K - Kayak, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Working out, fishing. (Twitter profile, 24 Feb 2020; jiji.com, 10 Feb 2020)

Athlete

Cultural Studies - Surugadai University, Hanno, JPN

English, Japanese

Showa Aircraft Industry Corporation [Akishima, JPN]

Shuji Yamanaka [national], JPN

Her older brother Kazuki represented Japan in canoe slalom at the Olympic Games in 2008, 2012 and 2016. (SportsDeskOnline, 05 Jun 2018; joc.or.jp, 27 Jul 2012)

She took up the sport at about age nine. (c19.co.jp, 23 Jun 2013)

She was influenced by her father and her older brother. (c19.co.jp, 23 Jun 2013)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sanspo.com, 21 Oct 2019)

She does cross-country skiing in the winter months to improve her arm technique. (yahoo.co.jp, 03 Feb 2020)

Her older brother Kazuki. (sankei.com, 17 Oct 2015)

In 2019 she received the Japan Sports Award. (Twitter profile, 13 Jan 2019)

In 2016 she was presented with the Nagano Prefecture Sports Honorary Award in Japan. (sankei.com, 10 Nov 2016)

She was named Best Athlete in 2011 and 2013 by the Hanno Sports Association in Japan. (surugadai.ac.jp, 17 Mar 2014, 19 Mar 2012)