KITAMA Yui

Wheelchair Basketball

Date of Birth: 6 Oct 1994

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Sport Class: 1.0

Place of birth: ITAMI

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : ITAMI

Residence Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Wheelchair Basketball	Women JPN Japan	6

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza	Women's Preliminary Round Group A #04 AUS Australia 47 JPN Japan 73	Finished
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza	Women's Preliminary Round Group A #07 JPN Japan 54 GBR Great Britain 48	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Preliminary Round Group A #18 CAN Canada 61 JPN Japan 35	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Preliminary Round Group A #39 JPN Japan 54 GER Germany 59	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Quarterfinal #53 NED Netherlands 82 JPN Japan 24	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Classification Playoff 5/6 #66 CAN Canada 68 JPN Japan 49	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
World Championships
9	Women	2014	Toronto, ON, CAN
Asian Para Games
2	Women	2018	Jakarta, INA

Occupation:

Athlete, Office Worker

Sociology - Otemon Gakuin University, Ibaraki, JPN

Languages spoken:

Cocktail [Japan] since 2007

Hiroshi Iwano [club], JPN; Yoshiaki Iwasa [national], JPN

Position style:

Forward (paraspoplus.com, 10 Dec 2018)

2010 for Japan, Asian Para Games in Guangzhou, China (basketballking.jp, 27 Jul 2021)

She began the sport in grade seven of middle school in Itami, Japan. (paraspoplus.com, 10 Dec 2018)

When she was a staff member of the able-bodied basketball team at middle school, the coach took her to the Itami Super Phoenix's wheelchair basketball match, and she was encouraged to take up the sport. (paraspoplus.com, 10 Dec 2018; nissei-advance.co.jp, Feb 2015)

To win gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (city.itami.lg.jp, 01 Oct 2019)

Her parents. (ytv-athlete.jp, 02 Apr 2020)

She was named Most Valuable Player at the 2017 Women's Championship in Japan. (glitters.jp, 16 Jul 2017)

General Interest

Classification
1.0 (IWBF, 2021)

Origin of Impairment
Congenital (sankei.com, 23 Aug 2019)

Impairment Details
She was born with spina bifida, and began using a wheelchair at age three. (sankei.com, 23 Aug 2019)

Social Media

Legend

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

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