ITOKAZU Yoichi

Olympic Games

Year	Location	62kg - Total
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	4th (302)

World Championships - Part one

Year	Location	56kg - Total	56kg - Snatch	56kg - C&J	62kg - Total	62kg - Snatch	62kg - C&J	61kg - Total	61kg - Snatch	61kg - C&J
2019	Pattaya, THA	-	-	-	-	-	-	6th (293)	3rd (135)	10th (158)
2018	Ashgabat, TKM	-	-	-	-	-	-	8th (292)	9th (132)	8th (160)
2017	Anaheim, CA, USA	-	-	-	2nd (299)	5th (134)	4th (165)	-	-	-
2015	Houston, TX, USA	-	-	-	6th (294)	7th (132)	7th (162)	-	-	-
2014	Almaty, KAZ	-	-	-	(---)	6th (132)	(---)	-	-	-
2013	Wroclaw, POL	-	-	-	7th (287)	8th (127)	6th (160)	-	-	-
2011	Paris, FRA	-	-	-	21st (271)	19th (121)	20th (150)	-	-	-
2010	Antalya, TUR	(---)	27th (104)	(---)	-	-	-	-	-	-
2009	Goyang, KOR	11th (244)	14th (106)	10th (138)	-	-	-	-	-	-

Asian Games

Year	Location	62kg - Total
2018	Indonesia	5th (288)

Asian Championships

Year	Location	61kg - Total	61kg - Snatch	61kg - C&J
2020	Tashkent, UZB	3rd (285)	4th (130)	3rd (155)
2019	Ningbo, CHN	4th (298)	4th (134)	5th (164)

Legend
C&J - Clean & Jerk, (---) - no valid result, DSQ - Disqualified

Star of a Tiny Island (sanspo.com, 14 Apr 2012)

Climbing. (ritokei.com, 09 Apr 2017)

Police Athlete

Humanities, Science - Nihon University, Tokyo, JPN

Japanese

Metropolitan Police Department [Tokyo, JPN]

Tetsuo Komiyama [national], JPN

His younger sister Kanako represented Japan in weightlifting at the 2016 Asian Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. (SportsDeskOnline, 23 Oct 2018; sanspo.com, 14 Apr 2012)

In 2019 he sustained an injury to his right shoulder at the 2019 Asian Championships in Ningbo, People's Republic of China. (number.bunshun.jp, 15 Jul 2019; sanspo.com, 06 Jul 2019)

In 2018 he was troubled by persistent back pain. (ryukyushimpo.jp, 05 Sep 2018)

He took up the sport in grade eight of middle school, and then began weightlifting seriously at Tomishiro High School in Okinawa, Japan. (ninomiyasports.com, 14 Feb 2012)

He was encouraged to begin weightlifting by one of his teachers at school. (ritokei.com, 09 Apr 2017)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (tarzanweb.jp, 22 Oct 2020)

"In the past, I only focused on weightlifting. Now I do sprints in the morning. I realised that explosive muscular strength training would be helpful to strengthen my inner core." (tarzanweb.jp, 22 Oct 2020)

Japanese weightlifter Yoshinobu Miyake. (mainichi.jp, 22 Jan 2018)

In 2018 he received the Big Sports Olympic Encouragement Award at the 52nd Asahi TV Big Sports Awards in Japan. (tvguide.or.jp, 12 Nov 2018)

In 2016 he was given an Excellence Award by the Japan Weightlifting Association. (sanyonews.jp, 19 Mar 2017)

He received the Governor's Award at the 2013 Tokyo Sports Festival in Japan. (ryukyushimpo.jp, 09 Nov 2013)

He received an Excellence Award at the 2010 Okinawa Amateur Sports Association Awards in Japan. (okinawakentaikyo.com, 2010)