YOSHIDA Kento

World Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	16	12
2018	Wuxi, CHN	27	16
2017	Leipzig, GER	48	15

Asian Games

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2018	Indonesia	14	6

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2019	Tokyo, JPN	32	3
2018	Bangkok, THA	13	4
2017	Hong Kong, CHN	12	5

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

Year	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2020/2021	-	1 x 15th
2019/2020	1 x 64th	1 x 11th, 1 x 14th, 1 x 17th
2018/2019	1 x 53rd	1 x 8th, 1 x 9th, 1 x 10th
2017/2018	1 x 40th	1 x 12th, 3 x 13th, 1 x 15th
2016/2017	1 x 52nd, 1 x 56th	1 x 10th, 2 x 12th

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

Year	Sabre Individual
2018/2019	1 x 44th
2017/2018	1 x 22nd, 1 x 24th, 1 x 25th
2016/2017	1 x 47th, 1 x 61st

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

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
8	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Padua, ITA
9	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Warsaw, POL
10	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Algiers, ALG
10	2016/2017	Sabre Team	World Cup	Warsaw, POL
11	2019/2020	Sabre Team	World Cup	Cairo, EGY
12	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Madrid, ESP
12	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Budapest, HUN
12	2017/2018	Sabre Team	World Cup	Gyor, HUN
12	2016/2017	Sabre Team	World Cup	Madrid, ESP
12	2016/2017	Sabre Team	World Cup	Padua, ITA

Police Athlete

Law - Hosei University, Tokyo, JPN

Japanese

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department [Japan]

Naoto Okazaki [club], JPN; Yusuke Aoki [national], JPN; Lee Wook Jae [national], KOR

Right (fie.org, 01 Jan 2018)

His father Seiji Yoshida has served as manager of the J1 League volleyball team FC Tokyo. (fctokyo.co.jp, 30 Apr 2021; city.koganei.lg.jp, 21 Apr 2021)

2011 for Japan (fie.org, 05 Nov 2011)

He took up the sport in grade ten of high school. (city.koganei.lg.jp, 21 Apr 2021)

He originally got involved in football while in primary school and middle school, but he wanted to try other sports in high school. At that time, a teacher who was in charge of a fencing team suggested the sport to him, so he began competing in foil. After being unhappy with his results in foil, he switched to sabre when he was a student at Hosei University in Tokyo, Japan. (city.koganei.lg.jp, 21 Apr 2021)

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

His father Seiji Yoshida. (city.koganei.lg.jp, 21 Apr 2021)

"Do not forget your original intention." (city.koganei.lg.jp, 21 Apr 2021)