SASAKI Mana

Date of Birth: 2 Sep 1997

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Sport Class: T13

Place of birth: FUKUSHIMA

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : FUKUSHIMA

Residence Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's 100m - T13
	Women's 400m - T13	7

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 100m - T13 Round 1 - Heat 1	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 400m - T13 Round 1 - Heat 3	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 400m - T13 Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
World Championships
4	400m - T13	2019	Dubai, UAE	58.38
5	Women's 200m T13	2017	London, GBR	26.36
6	Women's 200m T13	2019	Dubai, UAE	26.14
6	400m - T13	2017	London, GBR	1:00.17
Asian Para Games
1	400m - T13	2018	Jakarta, INA	1:01.48

Drawing, making beads. (tohobank-athleticsclub.com, 01 Apr 2016)

Occupation:

Athlete, Bank Employee

Languages spoken:

TOHO Athletics Club [Fukushima, JPN]

Kazuhisa Kawamoto [club], JPN

2015 for Japan, World Games in Seoul, Korea (minyu-net.com, 02 May 2015)

She took up the sport in the fifth grade of primary school. (sportrait-web.com, 03 Dec 2019; Athlete, 14 Jul 2017)

After being invited to a training session, she went on to finish second at a competition. She then decided to pursue the sport. (tohobank-athleticsclub.com, 01 Apr 2016)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (sankei.com, 04 Jan 2020)

Philosophy:

"Devote yourself every day." (yomiuri.co.jp, 02 Oct 2018)

In 2018 she received the Governor of Fukushima Prefecture Award in Japan. In the same year, she was also presented with the International Competition Excellent Achievement Award by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan. (minpo.jp, 26 Jul 2019; pref.fukushima.lg.jp, 28 May 2019)

General Interest

Classification
T13, F13 (IPC, 19 Apr 2021)

Type of Impairment
Vision impairment (Athlete, 06 Nov 2019)

Origin of Impairment
Congenital (Athlete, 06 Nov 2019)

Impairment Details
At birth she was diagnosed with a condition that affects the iris in her eye. (philanthropy.or.jp, 06 Oct 2015)

General
NUCLEAR DISASTER
She believes that switching to an indoor training programme during the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which happened close to her home in Japan, meant that she was better prepared for the changes to her training regime caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. "I hardly trained outside during the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, so I focused on indoor training, including running on a treadmill. I felt that the earthquake that caused the disaster and the COVID-19 pandemic were connected in that way. After all, I realised that it was very important to keep working steadily at all times." (nhk.or.jp, 10 Feb 2021)

Social Media

Athlete Blog: http://www.tohobank-athleticsclub.com/players_blog/sasaki/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010991201188
Facebook Profile 2: https://www.facebook.com/mana.sasaki.332

Legend

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

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