YAMASHITA Manabu

Date of Birth: 4 Feb 1989

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Place of birth: OYABE

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : JAPAN

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Hockey	Men JPN Japan	11

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Pool A #M01 JPN Japan 3 AUS Australia 5	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Men's Pool A #M08 JPN Japan 1 ARG Argentina 2	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Pool A #M15 JPN Japan 2 NZL New Zealand 2	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Pool A #M19 JPN Japan 1 ESP Spain 4	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Pool A #M27 JPN Japan 3 IND India 5	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Asian Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2018	Indonesia

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Men	2017	Dhaka, BAN

Occupation:

Athlete, Office Worker

Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan

Wife Akiko [2018]

Languages spoken:

English, Japanese

Oyabe Red Ox [Japan] since 2018

Hideki Numada [club], JPN: Siegfried Aikman [national], NED

Position style:

Defender (hockey.or.jp, 29 Nov 2020)

Right (frater.or.jp, 23 May 2014)

Sporting relatives:

His wife Akiko Kato has also competed in the sport at international level. She was part of the Japanese national team that won gold at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. (Akiko Yamashita Instagram profile, 20 Feb 2021; hjl-hockey.tv, 2019; joc.or.jp, 18 Aug 2018)

National league:

Hockey Japan League H2 [JPN] (hjl-hockey.tv, 2021)

He began playing hockey at 11. (frater.or.jp, 23 May 2014)

"I had initially played football. One day I was asked to help out the hockey team due to a shortage of players at my primary school. It was the beginning of my hockey career." (frater.or.jp, 23 May 2014; International Hockey Federation [FIH] YouTube channel, 16 Jun 2020)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (International Hockey Federation YouTube channel, 16 Jun 2020)

Philosophy:

"Effort." (nikkansports.com, 02 Apr 2020)

General Interest

General
OVERSEAS EXPERIENCES
In October 2018 he played for Australian Hockey League club Canberra Lakers, and returned to Japan ahead of the 2019 season. In 2019 he returned to Australia to play for Melbourne Premier League club Southern United from April until September before joining the Hockey One club Canberra Chill for two months in October that year. In August 2020 he relocated from Japan to Germany as he was loaned to Bundesliga club Nuremberg HTC for three months. (smh.com.au, 03 Oct 2018; hjl-hockey.tv, 2019; nordbayern.de, 27 Oct 2020; myhockey.jp, 21 Jan 2021, 25 Sep 2019)

Social Media

Legend

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

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