TOMIZAWA Makoto

Date of Birth: 19 Jul 1984

Age: 37

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.81/5'11''

Place of birth: KASHIWAZAKI

Birth Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Sailing	Men's Windsurfer - RS:X	16

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Enoshima	Men's Windsurfer - RS:X - Race 01 #1	Finished
Followed by	Enoshima	Men's Windsurfer - RS:X - Race 02 #2	Finished
Followed by	Enoshima	Men's Windsurfer - RS:X - Race 03 #3	Finished
	Kamakura	Men's Windsurfer - RS:X - Race 04 #4	Finished
Followed by	Kamakura	Men's Windsurfer - RS:X - Race 05 #5	Finished
Followed by	Kamakura	Men's Windsurfer - RS:X - Race 06 #6	Finished
	Fujisawa	Men's Windsurfer - RS:X - Race 07 #7	Finished
Followed by	Fujisawa	Men's Windsurfer - RS:X - Race 08 #8	Finished
Followed by	Fujisawa	Men's Windsurfer - RS:X - Race 09 #9	Finished
	Kamakura	Men's Windsurfer - RS:X - Race 10 #10	Finished
Followed by	Kamakura	Men's Windsurfer - RS:X - Race 11 #11	Finished
Followed by	Kamakura	Men's Windsurfer - RS:X - Race 12 #12	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
10	RS:X	2008	Beijing, CHN
15	RS:X	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
28	RS:X	2012	London, GBR

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
26	RS:X	2014	Santander, ESP
26	RS:X	2011	Fremantle, WA, AUS
27	RS:X	2018	Aarhus, DEN
33	RS:X	2007	Cascais, POR

Class World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
10	RS:X	2019	Torbole, ITA
17	RS:X	2017	Enoshima, JPN
20	RS:X	2020	Sorrento, VIC, AUS
22	RS:X	2021	Cadiz, ESP

Asian Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	RS:X	2018	Indonesia

Class European Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
22	RS:X	2021	Vilamoura, POR

Class North American Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	RS:X	2019	Miami, FL, USA

Class Asian Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	RS:X	2017	Magong, TPE

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	RS:X	2016	Melbourne, VIC, AUS
4	RS:X	2018	Gamagori, JPN
5	RS:X	2018	Hyeres, FRA
6	RS:X	2020	Enoshima, JPN
10	RS:X	2021	Medemblik, NED
10	RS:X	2019	Marseille, FRA
10	RS:X	2017	Miami, FL, USA
12	RS:X	2018	Marseille, FRA
12	RS:X	2017	Santander, ESP
12	RS:X	2017	Hyeres, FRA
19	RS:X	2018	Miami, FL, USA
28	RS:X	2019	Miami, FL, USA
28	RS:X	2019	Enoshima, JPN

Spending time with his children. (spread-sports.jp, 13 Aug 2018)

Occupation:

Athlete, Automotive Industry

Economics - Kanto Gakuin University, Yokohama, JPN

Languages spoken:

English, Japanese

Toyota Motor East Japan [Japan]

Kenji Nakamura [national], JPN; Nick Dempsey [personal], GBR

Sporting relatives:

His father Hitoshi Tomizawa was a sailor at national level. He competed at the National Sports Festival of Japan. (asahi.com, 26 Feb 2020)

He began sailing in grade two of primary school in Kashiwazaki, Japan, and took up the sport competitively at age 15. (asahi.com, 26 Feb 2020; jw-a.org, 30 Sep 2019; asahi.com, 14 Apr 2015)

He was coached by his father. He also competed in swimming and water polo at high school before deciding to focus on sailing. (asahi.com, 26 Feb 2020; spread-sports.jp, 13 Aug 2018)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (at-s.com, 04 Aug 2020)

In 2009 he received the Yokosuka City Sports Glory Citation Award in Japan. (yokosuka.keizai.biz, 14 Feb 2009)

General Interest

General
NEW COACH
He met British sailor Nick Dempsey at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where Dempsey won silver in the RS:X class, and Tomizawa took the opportunity to ask him to become his coach. "I heard about Nick's retirement after the 2016 Games. Therefore, I said to him half-jokingly, 'Then, would you coach me?', and he said, 'Yes'." (spread-sports.jp, 13 Aug 2018)

Milestones

He became the first Japanese sailor to finish on the podium in the RS:X class at a World Cup event when he placed third at the 2014 stage in Miami, FL, United States of America. (SportsDeskOnline, 08 Jan 2016; bulkhead.jp, 03 Feb 2014)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/makoto.tomizawa.9
https://instagram.com/makoto.tomizawa/
Athlete Website: http://makoto-otokam.jugem.jp
International Federation Website: https://site-isaf.soticcloud.net/biog.php?memberid=37662&js=1

Legend

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

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