YAMADA Masaru

World Championships

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	12	9
2018	Wuxi, CHN	86	9
2017	Leipzig, GER	110	13
2015	Moscow, RUS	73	13
2014	Kazan, RUS	36	12

Asian Games

Year	Location	Epee Team
2018	Indonesia	1

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2019	Tokyo, JPN	1	-
2018	Bangkok, THA	48	5
2017	Hong Kong, CHN	10	3

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

Year	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2020/2021	1 x 34th	1 x 5th
2019/2020	1 x 9th, 1 x 17th, 1 x 39th	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th, 1 x 9th
2018/2019	1 x 12th, 1 x 29th	1 x 1st, 1 x 5th, 1 x 9th
2017/2018	1 x 8th, 1 x 45th, 1 x 47th	1 x 3rd, 1 x 8th, 1 x 15th
2016/2017	1 x 7th, 1 x 8th	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th, 1 x 9th

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

Year	Epee Individual
2019/2020	1 x 1st, 1 x 3rd
2018/2019	1 x 23rd, 1 x 24th, 1 x 49th
2017/2018	1 x 37th
2016/2017	1 x 31st

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

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2019/2020	Epee Individual	Grand Prix	Budapest, HUN
1	2018/2019	Epee Team	World Cup	Buenos Aires, ARG
3	2019/2020	Epee Individual	Grand Prix	Doha, QAT
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
5	2020/2021	Epee Team	World Cup	Kazan, RUS
5	2018/2019	Epee Team	World Cup	Paris, FRA

Masarun, Makun (fencingfan.net, 26 Nov 2015)

Watching movies. (fencingfan.net, 26 Nov 2015)

Armed Forces Athlete

Physical Education - Nihon University, Tokyo, JPN

Wife Rie Ohashi, one son [2020]

Japanese

Japan Self-Defence Force Physical Training School [Japan]

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

Right (FIE, 01 Jun 2014)

His older sister Ayumi has represented Japan in fencing. She won bronze in team epee at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. His wife Rie Ohashi also competed in fencing for Japan and won bronze in team epee at the 2015 Asian Championships in Singapore and at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Republic of Korea. She also competed in epee at the world championships in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017. (SportsDeskOnline, 05 May 2021; jiji.com, 22 Dec 2020; bs-asahi.co.jp, 03 Jan 2020)

2013 for Japan (fie.org, 03 Jul 2015)

In May 2020 he underwent surgery on a slipped disc. He returned to training and competition in early 2021. (SportsDeskOnline, 05 May 2021; nikkei.com, 25 Aug 2020; olympicchannel.com, 25 Aug 2020)

He took up fencing in grade two of primary school in Toba, Japan. (jiji.com, 22 Dec 2020; mainichi.jp, 18 Jun 2013)

He got involved in the sport because it suited his physique. (se-sports.or.jp, 01 Jun 2016)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Twitter profile, 02 Jun 2019; Japan Self-Defence Force Physical Training School Ameba profile, 23 Aug 2018)

Coach Oleksandr Gorbachuk. (jiji.com, 22 Dec 2020)

"Review the old and learn the new." (fencingfan.net, 26 Nov 2015)

He received an Excellence Award at the 2018 Asaka Citizen Sports Awards in Japan. (city.asaka.lg.jp, 01 Nov 2018)

In 2017 he received the Toba City Sports Excellence Award, and the Mie Prefecture Sports Special Achievement Award. (pref.mie.lg.jp, 08 Feb 2018; city.toba.mie.jp, 01 Jan 2018)

In 2014 he was given the Kozuki Sports Prize by the Kozuki Foundation and a Sports Excellence Award in Setagaya. (se-sports.or.jp, 23 Feb 2015; kozuki.or.jp, 11 Aug 2014)

He received an Excellence Award at the 2012 Toba Players and Teams Excellence Awards. (toba.mie.jp, 14 Dec 2012)