FUJII Ikumi

Wheelchair Basketball

Date of Birth: 2 Nov 1982

Age: 38

Gender: Female

Sport Class: 4.0

Place of birth: YOKOHAMA

Birth 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
Asian Para Games
2	Women	2018	Jakarta, INA

Ikumi (parasapo.tokyo, 10 Feb 2020)

Occupation:

Athlete, Office Worker

Husband Shingo Fujii, son Sora [2014]

Languages spoken:

Scratch [Japan]

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

Position style:

Forward (parasapo.tokyo, 10 Feb 2020)

Sporting relatives:

Her husband Shingo Fujii represented Japan in wheelchair basketball at the Paralympic Games in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016. In 2018 he served as the assistant coach of the Japanese women's wheelchair basketball team, and the following year he was appointed an assistant coach of the U23 Japanese men's team. (bs-asahi.co.jp, 23 Mar 2019; yahoo.co.jp, 11 Feb 2020; miyagimax.net, 06 Feb 2020; basketballking.jp, 13 Jan 2020, 25 Jan 2021, 08 Jun 2021)

2005 for Japan (basketballking.jp, 25 Jan 2021)

She took up the sport seriously in 2002 at age 20 in Yokohama, Japan. (bs-asahi.co.jp, 23 Mar 2019; basketballking.jp, 25 Jan 2021)

She began playing able-bodied basketball in grade three of primary school. After undergoing surgery in middle school, she was not able to play the sport. At that time, she was encouraged to take up wheelchair basketball by her teacher. (bs-asahi.co.jp, 23 Mar 2019; bs4.jp, 25 Mar 2017; suntory.co.jp, 14 Feb 2018)

To win a medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (tsunahiro.com, 07 Jun 2019)

Her husband Shingo Fujii. (basketballking.jp, 25 Jan 2021)

She was named an All Star Five Player at the Emperor's Cup in 2017, 2018 and 2019. (yahoo.co.jp, 28 Aug 2019)

General Interest

Classification
4.0 (IWBF, 2021)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (bs-asahi.co.jp, 23 Mar 2019)

Impairment Details
She underwent surgery on her right leg for a prosthetic knee replacement as she sustained an osteosarcoma at age 15. (bs-asahi.co.jp, 23 Mar 2019; bs4.jp, 25 Mar 2017)

General
SURGERY
She had her entire colon removed due to ulcerative colitis at age 19. In September 2017 she underwent surgery for the removal of the right breast after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. (suntory.co.jp, 14 Feb 2018)

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Legend

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

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