YAMADA Miyu

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Quarterfinal	-49kg	2013	Puebla, MEX
3rd Round	-49kg	2019	Manchester, GBR
3rd Round	-49kg	2017	Muju, KOR
3rd Round	-49kg	2015	Chelyabinsk, RUS

Asian Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	-49kg	2018	Indonesia

Asian Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Quarterfinal	-49kg	2018	Ho Chi Minh City, VIE

Grand Prix

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	-49kg	2019	Rome, ITA
3	-49kg	2018	Manchester, GBR
Quarterfinal	-49kg	2019	Sofia, BUL
Quarterfinal	-49kg	2018	Taoyuan, TPE
1st Round	-49kg	2018	Rome, ITA

Athlete, Office Worker

English Literature - Daito Bunka University, Tokyo, JPN

Japanese

Johoku Shinkin Bank [Japan]

Hiroyuki Yamashita [national], JPN; Hiroshi Kanai [personal], JPN, from 2012

Her older brother Yuma Yamada has also represented Japan in taekwondo, and won bronze in the -58kg category at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Republic of Korea. Her father has served as her coach. (845.fm, 15 Mar 2012; olympicchannel.com, 07 Apr 2020; SportsDeskOnline, 22 May 2018)

2010 (ajta.or.jp, May 2017)

She began the sport in grade seven of middle school. (shinkin.co.jp, 01 Apr 2016)

She initially began practising karate at age three because her father ran a karate dojo. She switched to taekwondo after her father suggested that her slight physique would be better suited to the sport, because it has more weight categories than karate. Her father later opened a taekwondo club. (olympicchannel.com, 07 Apr 2020; tarzanweb.jp, 20 Apr 2019)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sponichi.co.jp, 10 Feb 2020)

Japanese taekwondoka Erika Kasahara. (olympicchannel.com, 07 Apr 2020)

In 2020 she received the Best Athlete Award in the taekwondo category at the Japan Sports Awards. (sponichi.co.jp, 20 Jan 2020)