KAKEHATA Eiko

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
1	Women	2012	London, GBR
5	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
World Championships
4	Women	2014	Espoo, FIN
5	Women	2018	Malmo, SWE
Asian Para Games
1	Women	2018	Jakarta, INA

Kake (Athlete, 01 Apr 2016)

Spending time with her dogs. (Instagram profile, 24 Dec 2019)

Athlete, Office Worker

Yokohama College of Art and Design, Kanagawa, JPN

Japanese

Sega Sammy Holdings [Japan] since 2015

Kyoichi Ichikawa [national], JPN

Left wing (2020.yahoo.co.jp, 28 Feb 2021)

Her father Mitsunori Kakehata played baseball for the Yokohama DeNA Baystars in the Nippon Baseball Organisation from 1982 until 1993. (nippon.com, 28 Jun 2019; npb.jp, 1993)

She began playing goalball at age 15. (Athlete, 01 Apr 2016)

"I was invited to a goalball training session by a friend who competed in the sport. I was quite good at throwing the ball, so I found it interesting." (1242.com, 20 Jan 2017; Athlete, 01 Apr 2016)

To win gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (2020.yahoo.co.jp, 28 Feb 2021)

She focuses on goalball two to three days a week, and spends two days a week on physical training sessions. (pref.kanagawa.jp, 24 Mar 2020)

Her family, and her best friend at school. (2020.yahoo.co.jp, 28 Feb 2021; Athlete, 01 Apr 2016)

"Challenge everything and every moment." (pref.kanagawa.jp, 24 Mar 2020)

In 2012 she was given the Yokohama Sports Honorary Award in Japan. (hamaspo.com, 30 Nov 2012)