Takashi Yamamoto (swimmer)
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Full name | Takashi Yamamoto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1978-07-23) July 23, 1978 (age 46) 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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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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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