YANAGIMOTO Amane

Wheelchair Basketball

Date of Birth: 4 Aug 1998

Age: 23

Gender: Female

Sport Class: 2.5

Place of birth: KYOTO

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : KYOTO

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
Asian Para Games
2	Women	2018	Jakarta, INA

Anna (Facebook profile, 01 Apr 2017)

Painting her nails, shopping, listening to K-Pop. (Instagram profile, 04 Feb 2020; paraspoplus.com, 30 Nov 2018; ktv.jp, 15 Apr 2019; paraspoplus.com, 11 Jan 2020)

Occupation:

Athlete, Office Worker

Life Science - Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, Kyotanabe, JPN

Languages spoken:

Cocktail [Japan]

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

Position style:

Forward (parasapo.tokyo, 09 Oct 2019)

2014 for Japan, Asian Para Games in Incheon, Korea (parasapo.tokyo, 09 Oct 2019)

She took up the sport seriously at age 12. (parasapo.tokyo, 09 Oct 2019; kotodamavoice.org, 24 Aug 2018)

She was introduced to wheelchair basketball by hospital staff. (parasapo.tokyo, 09 Oct 2019)

To compete at the Paralympic Games in 2024 and 2028. (city.kyoto.lg.jp, 31 Oct 2019; ktv.jp, 15 Apr 2019)

Her mother. (parasapo.tokyo, 02 Oct 2021)

She likes to paint her nails pink before a competition. (ktv.jp, 15 Apr 2019)

She was given an All Star Five Award and Three Point Award at the 2020 Empress's Cup in Japan. (jwbf.gr.jp, 13 Jan 2020)

She was named an All Star Five Player at the 2019 Asia Oceania Championships in Pattaya, Thailand. (basketballking.jp, 12 Feb 2021)

General Interest

Classification
2.5 (IWBF, 2021)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (parasapo.tokyo, 09 Oct 2019)

Impairment Details
The impairment to her lower limbs is the result of an illness at age two. (parasapo.tokyo, 09 Oct 2019)

Social Media

Legend

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

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