SHIKINE Takahiro

World Championships

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	40	9
2018	Wuxi, CHN	38	7
2017	Leipzig, GER	3	7

Asian Games

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2018	Indonesia	9	3

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019	Tokyo, JPN	1	1
2018	Bangkok, THA	11	3
2017	Hong Kong, CHN	12	4

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019/2020	1 x 16th, 1 x 37th, 1 x 54th	1 x 5th, 2 x 7th, 1 x 8th
2018/2019	1 x 20th, 1 x 54th	1 x 3rd, 1 x 15th
2017/2018	1 x 6th, 1 x 10th, 1 x 18th	1 x 3rd, 2 x 6th, 1 x 7th
2016/2017	1 x 18th, 1 x 45th, 1 x 59th	3 x 4th, 1 x 6th, 1 x 9th

Grand Prix overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Foil Individual
2020/2021	1 x 2nd
2019/2020	1 x 32nd
2018/2019	1 x 14th, 1 x 42nd
2017/2018	1 x 20th, 1 x 34th
2016/2017	1 x 6th

World Cup & Grand Prix - Ten best performances since 2016/2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
2	2020/2021	Foil Individual	Grand Prix	Doha, QAT
3	2018/2019	Foil Team	World Cup	Bonn, GER
3	2017/2018	Foil Team	World Cup	Tokyo, JPN
4	2016/2017	Foil Team	World Cup	Paris, FRA
4	2016/2017	Foil Team	World Cup	Tokyo, JPN
4	2016/2017	Foil Team	World Cup	Cairo, EGY
5	2019/2020	Foil Team	World Cup	Cairo, EGY
6	2017/2018	Foil Individual	World Cup	Tokyo, JPN
6	2017/2018	Foil Team	World Cup	Bonn, GER
6	2017/2018	Foil Team	World Cup	Cairo, EGY
6	2016/2017	Foil Individual	Grand Prix	Shanghai, CHN
6	2016/2017	Foil Team	World Cup	St. Petersburg, RUS

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2017	Plovdiv, BUL	5	2

Reading comic books. (Instagram profile, 25 Apr 2021)

Athlete, Office Worker

Law - Hosei University, Tokyo, JPN

Japanese

Nexus [Tokyo, JPN]

Oleg Matseichuk [national], UKR; Yusuke Aoki [national], JPN

Right (king-gear.com, 26 Jul 2018)

His father Yuichi Shikine represented Japan in fencing at world championship level and has served as head coach of the Japan national fencing team. His brother Akihiro Shikine competed in the sport at the 2012 World Cadet Championships in Moscow, Russian Federation, while his mother Naoko was a fencer at national level. (SportsDeskOnline, 05 May 2021; olympicchannel.com, 14 Jan 2019; king-gear.com, 26 Jul 2018; fencing-jpn.jp, 08 May 2018; mainichi.jp, 08 Jan 2017)

In November 2017 he underwent surgery after fracturing his right wrist in the semifinals of the All Japan Intercollegiate tournament. He returned to competition in February 2018. (Twitter profile, 13 Feb 2018, 21 Nov 2017)

He began fencing at age six. (olympicchannel.com, 14 Jan 2019)

"My father coached a fencing club and, when I was little, I used to go to the club with my brother and we often fought with a sword. At that time, my father asked me, 'Why don't you try fencing?'" (king-gear.com, 26 Jul 2018)

To win gold in the individual and team events at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (nikkansports.com, 25 Apr 2021)

Japanese fencer Yuki Ota. (nikkansports.com, 25 Apr 2021; king-gear.com, 26 Jul 2018)

He was named Rookie of the Year at the 2016 Japanese Olympic Committee [JOC] Sports Awards. (cyclestyle.net, 12 Jun 2017)