HATA Yukako

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Paralympic Games
6	PT2	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	1:33:21
World Championships
5	PT2	2016	Rotterdam, NED	1:34:56
6	PTS2	2018	Gold Coast, QLD, AUS	1:25:35
6	PTS2	2017	Rotterdam, NED	1:30:27
7	PTS2	2019	Lausanne, SUI	1:33:54

Fine dining, cooking. (city.chiba.jp, 20 Aug 2021)

Athlete, Office Worker

International Relations - Asia University, Tokyo, JPN

Japanese

Canon Marketing Japan [JPN] / MARS FLAG [JPN] / Bridgestone [JPN] [Chiba, JPN]

Masamitsu Tomikawa [national], JPN

She represented Japan in Para swimming, and won silver at the 2010 Asian Para Games in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China. (marsflag.com, 25 Jul 2016; nhk.or.jp, 06 Jul 2016)

2014 for Japan (marsflag.com, 25 Jul 2016)

In August 2015 she fractured her left collarbone while riding a motorbike, which resulted in her undergoing surgery and having a metal pin inserted. It took her two months to recover from the injury. After the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, she underwent another operation in order to remove the metal pin. (Athlete, 03 Sep 2016; yukakohata.amebaownd.com, 24 Nov 2016)

2014 (daily.co.jp, 27 Jun 2017)

She took up the sport in 2013 in Chiba, Japan. (Athlete, 03 Sep 2016; city.chiba.jp, 20 Aug 2021)

Previously a Para swimmer, she considered quitting her sporting career after failing to qualify for the 2012 Paralympic Games in London. She became interested in triathlon after learning people at her swimming club also competed in triathlon events. "When I was thinking whether to aim for the 2016 Paralympics as a Para swimmer, I thought that if I seriously got involved in Para triathlon, which was still unpopular in Japan, I would be able to play an active role to help to increase the awareness of the sport. With the support of the people around me, I decided to try triathlon." (parasapo.tokyo, 14 Mar 2020)

To win a medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (mainichi.jp, 05 Jul 2021)

Winning gold at the 2015 World Series event in Yokohama, Japan. (Athlete, 03 Sep 2016)

US Para triathlete Sarah Reinertsen. (Athlete, 03 Sep 2016)

"Everything exists under the same sky." (city.chiba.jp, 20 Aug 2021)

In 2016 she received the Ichihara Citizen Honorary Award in Japan. (yukakohata.amebaownd.com, 16 Oct 2016)