SHIGESADA Chika

Date of Birth: 22 Nov 1982

Age: 38

Gender: Female

Sport Class: W2

Place of birth: KITAKYUSHU

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : KITAKYUSHU

Residence Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Archery	Women's Individual Recurve - Open	7
	Mixed Team Recurve - Open JPN Japan	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Yumenoshima Ranking Field	Women's Individual Recurve - Open Ranking Round	Finished
	Yumenoshima Final Field	Women's Individual Recurve - Open 1/8 Elimination #127 CHN GAO FGAO Fangxia Sport Class: ST 1 JPN SHIGESADA CSHIGESADA Chika Sport Class: W2 7	Finished
	Yumenoshima Final Field	Women's Individual Recurve - Open Quarterfinal #130 CHN WU CWU Chunyan Sport Class: W2 7 JPN SHIGESADA CSHIGESADA Chika Sport Class: W2 1	Finished
	Yumenoshima Final Field	Mixed Team Recurve - Open 1/8 Elimination #174 BRA Brazil 1 JPN Japan 5	Finished
	Yumenoshima Final Field	Mixed Team Recurve - Open Quarterfinal #179 ITA Italy 6 JPN Japan 2	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
World Championships
8	Team Recurve - Open	2019	's-Hertogenbosch, NED
9	Individual Recurve - Open	2019	's-Hertogenbosch, NED
9	Team Recurve - Open	2017	Beijing, CHN
17	Individual Recurve - Open	2017	Beijing, CHN
Asian Para Games
2	Team Recurve - Open	2018	Jakarta, INA
8	Individual Recurve - Open	2018	Jakarta, INA

Occupation:

Athlete, Office Worker

Languages spoken:

Hayashi Telempu [Nagoya, JPN]

Hiroki Suetake [personal], JPN

Other sports:

She has competed in wheelchair tennis at national level in Japan. (parasapo.tokyo, 07 Feb 2020; bs4.jp, 23 Dec 2018)

2017 for Japan, World Championships in Beijing, China (J:COM YouTube channel, 15 Dec 2019)

She began the sport in 2015. (tokyo-np.co.jp, 13 Jan 2020)

She previously played wheelchair tennis, but switched to Para archery because she wanted to try a sport that required a higher level of concentration. She wanted to compete at the Paralympic Games after being inspired by Japanese Para archer Tomohiro Ueyama. (parasapo.tokyo, 07 Feb 2020)

To win gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (J:COM YouTube channel, 15 Dec 2019)

She trains six days a week, for a minimum of eight hours per day. (sports.nhk.or.jp, 03 Feb 2020)

Japanese Para archer Tomohiro Ueyama. (J:COM YouTube channel, 15 Dec 2019; bs4.jp, 23 Dec 2018)

General Interest

Classification
Open (worldarchery.org, 04 Mar 2020)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (parasapo.tokyo, 07 Feb 2020)

Impairment Details
In grade eight of middle school she was diagnosed with chronic progressive myelopathy, which affects her spinal cord. As a result she has paraplegia. (parasapo.tokyo, 07 Feb 2020; nishinippon.co.jp, 20 Sep 2019)

General
OTHER ACTIVITIES
In July 2019 she was appointed as a sports ambassador for Kitakyushu, Japan. (mainichi.jp, 20 Sep 2019)

Social Media

Legend

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

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