TSUCHIDA Mayumi

Wheelchair Basketball

Date of Birth: 11 Mar 1977

Age: 44

Gender: Female

Sport Class: 4.0

Place of birth: NAGAHAMA

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : YASHIO

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
7	Women	2010	Birmingham, GBR
9	Women	2014	Toronto, ON, CAN
Asian Para Games
2	Women	2018	Jakarta, INA

Occupation:

Athlete, Office Worker

Languages spoken:

English, Japanese

Scratch [Japan] since 2018

Shingo Fujii [club], JPN; Yoshiaki Iwasa [national], JPN

Position style:

Forward (parakanagawasc.net, 27 Jul 2021)

2010 for Japan, World Championships in Birmingham, Great Britain (wedge.ismedia.jp, 17 Feb 2015)

She took up the sport competitively in 2009. (tvguide.or.jp, 23 Jan 2019; 1242.com, 06 Jun 2019)

She aspired to become a personal trainer, but she gave up her dream due to the impairment to her lower limbs. When she visited the gym one day, a wheelchair basketball team was training, and she was encouraged to try shooting by the staff. (1242.com, 06 Jun 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (1242.com, 06 Jun 2019)

She was named Most Valuable Player at the 2013 All Japan Championships. (1242.com, 06 Jun 2019)

General Interest

Classification
4.0 (IWBF, 2021)

Origin of Impairment
Congenital (tvguide.or.jp, 23 Jan 2019)

Impairment Details
She was diagnosed with a congenital hip impairment when she visited the hospital due to a backache in her second year of university. (tvguide.or.jp, 23 Jan 2019; wedge.ismedia.jp, 17 Feb 2015)

General
TRAINING IN THE NETHERLANDS
In September 2018 she travelled to the Netherlands in order to train with the Dutch national team. "I wanted to improve myself for my team particularly after the 2014 World Championship in Incheon, [Republic of Korea]. It took about three years for me to receive a response from the Dutch team after I had sent messages to several teams through social media. I heard that it was also the first time for the team that a foreign player trained with them." (1242.com, 06 Jun 2019)

Social Media

Legend

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

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