OYA Yuki

Japan
Athletics
20 Nov 1981
39
Male
T52
NISHINOMIYA
 
Japan
NISHINOMIYA
 
Japan

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
ATH Athletics Men's 100m - T52 2 Silver Medal

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Olympic Stadium - Track
Men's 100m - T52 Final
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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RankEventYearLocationResult
World Championships
4100m - T522019Dubai, UAE17.52
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Office Worker
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Japanese
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Nissei New Creation [NNC] [Osaka, JPN]
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Tadahiro Oya [brother], JPN, from 2014
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2019 for Japan (nikkei.com, 19 Feb 2020)
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He underwent an operation to remove bacteria from his hip bone after it had become infected in 2014. He returned to competitive action in April 2017. (nikkei.com, 19 Feb 2020; kobe-np.co.jp, 25 Aug 2019)
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He began Para athletics in 2005. (nikkei.com, 19 Feb 2020)
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He had initially played wheelchair basketball for three years before his team was disbanded. He became interested in Para athletics after claiming victory in the 1500m at a competition he attended due to the suggestion of a friend. (kobe-np.co.jp, 25 Aug 2019)
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To win a gold medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (nikkei.com, 19 Feb 2020; sun-tv.co.jp, 25 Aug 2020)
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His mother Yoko Oya. (kobe-np.co.jp, 25 Aug 2019; sun-tv.co.jp, 25 Aug 2020)
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In 2017 he received the Hyogo Prefecture Para Sports Excellence Award in Japan. (hyogo-c.ed.jp, 15 Feb 2019, 06 Feb 2020)

General Interest

Classification
T52 (IPC, 16 Jun 2021)

Type of Impairment
Spinal Cord Injuries (Kumiko Ameba profile, 26 Mar 2015)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (Kumiko Ameba profile, 26 Mar 2015)

Impairment Details
He has paraplegia as the result of damaging his spinal cord when he fell from an eight-floor building on a construction site where he was working at age 16. Also, while in grade nine of middle school, he had a stroke which resulted in a brain injury. (Kumiko Ameba profile, 26 Mar 2015; nikkei.com, 19 Feb 2020; mainichi.jp, 23 Jan 2020)

General
PROMISE WITH MOTHER
In 2011 he withdrew from the national team's selection trial for the 2012 Paralympic Games as his mother Yoko passed away from cancer on the competition day. "My mother would have definitely told me, 'Go to the race and do your best', but at that time I wanted to be with her, so I gave up my dream for the 2012 Paralympics. However, I never forgot that three days before she died my mother said to me, 'Do your best to compete on the global stage'." (Sun TV YouTube channel, 25 Aug 2020)

Legend
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Silver Medal
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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