KANO Koki

Date of Birth: 19 Dec 1997

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Olympic Scholarship

Place of birth: AMA

Birth Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Fencing	Men's Épée Individual	15
	Men's Épée Team JPN Japan	1

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Red Piste	Men's Épée Individual Table of 32 #47 JPN KANO KKANO Koki 15 ITA GAROZZO EGAROZZO Enrico 12	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Red Piste	Men's Épée Individual Table of 16 #56 JPN KANO KKANO Koki 12 ROC BIDA SBIDA Sergey 15	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Blue Piste	Men's Épée Team Table of 16 #2 USA United States 39 JPN Japan 45	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Blue Piste	Men's Épée Team Quarterfinal 1 #9 FRA France 44 JPN Japan 45	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Yellow Piste	Men's Épée Team Semifinal 1 #15 JPN Japan 45 KOR Republic of Korea 38	Finished
	Makuhari Messe B Final Piste	Men's Épée Team Gold Medal Match #20 JPN Japan 45 ROC ROC 36	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	6	9
2018	Wuxi, CHN	9	9
2017	Leipzig, GER	15	-

Asian Games

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2018	Indonesia	3	1

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2019	Tokyo, JPN	13	3
2018	Bangkok, THA	3	5
2017	Hong Kong, CHN	12	-

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

Year	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2020/2021	1 x 28th	1 x 5th
2019/2020	1 x 20th, 2 x 35th	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th
2018/2019	1 x 1st, 1 x 3rd, 1 x 34th	1 x 1st, 1 x 5th, 1 x 9th
2017/2018	1 x 11th, 2 x 35th, 1 x 37th	1 x 3rd, 1 x 8th, 1 x 15th
2016/2017	2 x 3rd	-

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

Year	Epee Individual
2019/2020	1 x 25th, 1 x 34th
2018/2019	1 x 10th, 1 x 18th, 1 x 36th
2017/2018	1 x 8th, 1 x 36th, 1 x 38th
2016/2017	1 x 16th

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

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2018/2019	Epee Individual	World Cup	Vancouver, BC, CAN
1	2018/2019	Epee Team	World Cup	Buenos Aires, ARG
3	2019/2020	Epee Team	World Cup	Vancouver, BC, CAN
3	2018/2019	Epee Individual	World Cup	Heidenheim, GER
3	2017/2018	Epee Team	World Cup	Bern, SUI
3	2016/2017	Epee Individual	World Cup	Paris, FRA
3	2016/2017	Epee Individual	World Cup	Heidenheim, GER
4	2019/2020	Epee Team	World Cup	Bern, SUI
5	2020/2021	Epee Team	World Cup	Kazan, RUS
5	2018/2019	Epee Team	World Cup	Paris, FRA

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2017	Plovdiv, BUL	13	11

Occupation:

Athlete, Office Worker

Sports Science - Waseda University, Tokyo, JPN

Languages spoken:

Japan Airlines [Japan]

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

Right (fie.org, 16 Jun 2017)

Other sports:

He was involved in competitive artistic gymnastics for eight years before taking up fencing. (sportie.com, 19 Mar 2021; wasedasports.com, 18 Jul 2017)

2014 for Japan (fie.org, 03 Oct 2014)

He began fencing in 2008. (nikkansports.com, 25 Apr 2021)

He was inspired to take up the sport after watching Japanese fencer Yuki Ota win a silver medal in individual foil at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. He switched from foil to epee while he was in high school after winning an epee tournament. (sportie.com, 19 Mar 2021; city.iwakuni.lg.jp, 12 Feb 2018; wasedasports.com, 18 Jul 2017)

To win gold in the team event at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sportie.com, 19 Mar 2021)

Japanese fencer Yuki Ota. (city.iwakuni.lg.jp, 12 Feb 2018)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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