MINOBE Kazuyasu

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Epee Individual
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	6

World Championships

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	17	9
2018	Wuxi, CHN	39	9
2017	Leipzig, GER	35	13
2015	Moscow, RUS	38	13
2014	Kazan, RUS	22	12
2013	Budapest, HUN	32	28
2011	Catania, ITA	82	10
2010	Paris, FRA	91	15

Asian Games

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2018	Indonesia	6	1

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2019	Tokyo, JPN	24	3
2018	Bangkok, THA	20	5
2017	Hong Kong, CHN	11	3

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

Year	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2020/2021	1 x 36th	1 x 5th
2019/2020	1 x 10th, 1 x 18th, 1 x 33rd	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th, 1 x 9th
2018/2019	1 x 1st, 1 x 6th, 1 x 17th	1 x 1st, 1 x 5th, 1 x 9th
2017/2018	1 x 1st, 1 x 12th, 1 x 18th	1 x 3rd, 1 x 8th, 1 x 15th
2016/2017	1 x 9th, 2 x 10th, 1 x 17th	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th, 1 x 7th

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

Year	Epee Individual
2019/2020	1 x 5th, 1 x 33rd
2018/2019	2 x 1st, 1 x 17th
2017/2018	1 x 10th, 1 x 13th, 1 x 36th
2016/2017	1 x 2nd, 1 x 34th

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

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2018/2019	Epee Individual	Grand Prix	Cali, COL
1	2018/2019	Epee Individual	Grand Prix	Budapest, HUN
1	2018/2019	Epee Individual	World Cup	Bern, SUI
1	2018/2019	Epee Team	World Cup	Buenos Aires, ARG
1	2017/2018	Epee Individual	World Cup	Heidenheim, GER
2	2016/2017	Epee Individual	Grand Prix	Budapest, HUN
3	2019/2020	Epee Team	World Cup	Vancouver, BC, CAN
3	2017/2018	Epee Team	World Cup	Bern, SUI
3	2016/2017	Epee Team	World Cup	Paris, FRA
4	2019/2020	Epee Team	World Cup	Bern, SUI
4	2016/2017	Epee Team	World Cup	Bern, SUI

Kazu (nexus-group.jp, 19 May 2015)

Athlete

Politics - Hosei University, Tokyo, JPN

Japanese

Nexus [Japan]

Yusuke Aoki [national], JPN; Oleksandr Gorbachuk [national], UKR

Left (fie.org, 2014)

2008 for Japan, World Cup in Montreal, Canada (fie.org, 30 May 2008)

He sustained injuries to his neck and shoulders at the 2016 World Cup event in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (sankei.com, 15 Feb 2016)

He began fencing at high school in Echizen, Japan. He initially took up foil, but switched to epee after starting university. (number.bunshun.jp, 27 May 2019; fukuishimbun.co.jp, 05 Jan 2016)

He was involved in karate for six years while he was in primary school, and played volleyball in middle school. He began fencing at high school following encouragement from his father. (FIE Fencing Channel YouTube channel, 03 Aug 2020; fukuishimbun.co.jp, 05 Jan 2016; fencing-jpn.jp, 14 Nov 2015)

To win individual and team gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (jomo-news.co.jp, 29 Apr 2020)

Competing at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, and winning the individual epee competition at the 2019 Grand Prix in Budapest, Hungary. (FIE Fencing Channel YouTube channel, 03 Aug 2020)

Japanese feudal lord Nobunaga Oda. (gunosy.com, 22 May 2019)

"The most important thing in my life is to not set limits for myself. You develop by overcoming such limits." (FIE Fencing Channel YouTube channel, 03 Aug 2020)

In January 2016 he was given the Citizen Sports and Cultural Grand Prize in Echizen, Japan. (fukuishimbun.co.jp, 04 Jan 2016)

He received the Echizen Sports and Cultural Special Award in 2014. (city.echizen.lg.jp, 24 Nov 2015)

He was presented with the Echizen Citizen Honorary Prize in January 2011. (city.echizen.lg.jp, 15 Jan 2015)