Emi Yasuo
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Emi Yasuo (born 10 June 1993) is a Japanese wheelchair basketball player, living in Oita.[1] She is a member of the Japan women's national wheelchair basketball team and her club Kyushu Dolphin. In 2021 she competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[2]
Life[change | change source]
Yasuo was born with arthrogryposis and as a result of that she has paralysis in her legs. Once while shopping in a supermarket she met wheelchair basketball player Miki Hirai, who invited her to start playing wheelchair basketball, but she didn't do that. After graduating from high school, she came back to basketball.[3]
Due to the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes, houses of her family and relatives were destroyed. She decided to move to Oita from Kumamoto and to continue her sporting careerk. The next year she became the "Most Valuable Player" at the 2017 National Junior Championships. She won the silver medal, with the national team at the 2018 Asian Para Games in Jakarta. She competed at the 2019 Asia Oceania Championship for Women.[4]
In 2019 she was awarded an "Excellence Award" by the Oita Prefecture Para Sports Association.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Shinken Athletes". Shinken Athletes. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
- ↑ "Wheelchair Basketball YASUO Emi - Tokyo 2020 Paralympics". web.archive.org. 2021-08-25. Archived from the original on 2021-08-25. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
- ↑ "偶然の出会いから東京パラへ 九州の車いすバスケ女子"師弟"初共演". 西日本新聞me (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-03-11.
- ↑ Nov 28; Oceania, 2019 | Asia; News; Tokyo 2020; News, Zone (2019-11-28). "Japan women to use Asia Oceania Championships to prepare for Tokyo 2020". IWBF - International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
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