KIDA Yumi

MARATHON SWIMMING

Olympic Games

Year	Location	10km
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	12
2012	London, GBR	12

World Championships

Year	Location	5km	10km	25km	5km - TTT X	5km - TR X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	-	22	-	-	14
2017	Budapest, HUN	-	23	15	-	-
2015	Kazan, RUS	-	28	-	-	-
2013	Barcelona, ESP	-	13	8	13	-
2011	Shanghai, CHN	DSQ	35	-	-	-

Pan Pacific Championships

Year	Location	10km
2018	Tokyo, JPN	6

Asian Championships

Year	Location	5km	10km
2018	Chonburi, THA	2	DNF
2017	Putrajaya, MAS	1	-

World Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	10km
2020	1 x 21st
2019	1 x 8th, 1 x 12th
2018	1 x 12th, 1 x 18th
2017	1 x 8th, 1 x 18th, 1 x 22nd

World Series - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location
8	2019	10km	Setubal, POR
8	2017	10km	Viedma, ARG
12	2019	10km	Balatonfured, HUN
12	2018	10km	Beau Vallon, SEY
18	2018	10km	Balatonfured, HUN
18	2017	10km	Abu Dhabi, UAE
21	2020	10km	Doha, QAT
22	2017	10km	Setubal, POR

Legend
X - Mixed, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified, TR - Team Relay, TTT - Team Time Trial

SWIMMING

World Championships

Year	Location	800Free	1500Free	4x200Free
2005	Montreal, QC, CAN	-	8th (16:23.89)	6th
2001	Fukuoka, JPN	H (8:44.95)	H (16:46.30)	-

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Sadaccho (konamisportsclub.jp, 01 Jul 2015)

Athlete

Maebashi Kyoai Gakuen College, Japan

Japanese

Konami Sports Club [Japan]

Kazuko Aoki [club], JPN; Yasushi Sugiyama [national], JPN

She has represented Japan in swimming and competed at the world championships in 2001 and 2005. She also won gold in the 1500m freestyle and silver in the 800m freestyle at the 2009 World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Jul 2021)

She began swimming at age seven and took up open water swimming in 2010. (nhk.or.jp, 25 Jun 2019; cheers.com.au, 01 Aug 2012)

She often got ill as a child so her mother took her to a swimming club to strengthen her physical condition. Her coach suggested she take up open water swimming to improve her freestyle skills. "It was always my dream to compete at the Olympic Games. I was encouraged to take up the sport many times, but I was not ready. However, after open water swimming was included on the programme for the Olympic Games in 2008, I wanted to try the sport." (Tsulunos YouTube channel, 23 Dec 2020; cheers.com.au, 01 Aug 2012; tv-asahi.co.jp,01 Jul 2012)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Kunma TV YouTube channel, 24 Dec 2019; sanspo.com, 22 Sep 2019)

Her mother. (konami.com, 31 May 2018)

"Continuity becomes power." (konami.com, 31 May 2018)