Takashi Yamamoto (swimmer)
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Full name | Takashi Yamamoto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1978-07-23) July 23, 1978 (age 45) Osaka, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Itoman Swimming School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Takashi Yamamoto (山本 貴司, Yamamoto Takashi, born July 23, 1978 in Osaka) is an Olympic medal-winning swimmer from Japan, who won the silver medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He was also part of Japan's bronze medal-winning 4 × 100 m medley relay team.[1]
Yamamoto also competed in the 100 m butterfly event, and qualified for the semifinals, but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final. The 2004 Games were Yamamoto's third Olympic Games. He had previously swum in the 1996 Olympic Games and 2000 Olympic Games, but did not receive a medal at either.
He married swimmer Suzu Chiba in 2002. They have four children together.[2]
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- 1958 Takashi Ishimoto (JPN)
- 1962 Kenzo Izutsu (JPN)
- 1966 Isao Nakajima (JPN)
- 1970 Yasuhiro Komazaki (JPN)
- 1974 Hideaki Hara (JPN)
- 1978 Shinsuke Kayama (JPN)
- 1982 Taihei Saka (JPN)
- 1986 Hiroshi Miura (JPN)
- 1990 Shen Jianqiang (CHN)
- 1994 Jiang Chengji (CHN)
- 1998 Takashi Yamamoto (JPN)
- 2002 Takashi Yamamoto (JPN)
- 2006 Takashi Yamamoto (JPN)
- 2010 Zhou Jiawei (CHN)
- 2014 Joseph Schooling (SGP)
- 2018 Joseph Schooling (SGP)
- 2022 Katsuhiro Matsumoto (JPN)
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