KAJI Yoshimi

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
World Championships
12	Kayak Single 200m - KL3	2018	Montemor-o-Velho, POR	1:02.719
17	Kayak Single 200m - KL3	2019	Szeged, HUN	54.56

Office Worker

Aichi University of Education , Japan

Husband Masaya Kaji, son Hisatsugu Kaji

Japanese

Gifu Canoe Association [JPN] / Netz Toyota Nagoya [JPN]

Izumi Honda [national], JPN

She competed in wheelchair racing, and won the half marathon event in the Oita International Wheelchair Marathon in Japan during her career. (Nippon Challenged Athletes Radio, 17 Jul 2020; bs-asahi.co.jp, 28 Sep 2019)

She took up the sport at age 34. (Nippon Challenged Athletes Radio, 17 Jul 2020)

She began competing in wheelchair racing at age 16. After winning a race, she was encouraged to switch to Para canoe by a coach who had seen her victory. "I didn't know anything about the sport, but I'd heard that it was included in the programme for the 2016 Paralympic Games for the first time, and that there were not a lot of athletes. I thought that there would be still possibilities for me to compete at the Paralympic Games, which I had given up on as a wheelchair marathoner. I felt like I'd found a new goal." (Nippon Challenged Athletes Radio, 17 Jul 2020; bs-asahi.co.jp, 28 Sep 2019)

To win a medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (kyodonewsprwire.jp, 21 May 2021)

Her husband Masaya Kaji. (Nippon Challenged Athletes Radio, 17 Jul 2020; bs-asahi.co.jp, 28 Sep 2019)