Wakako Tsuchida H2

Athlete's Profile

Japan
1974
World Triathlon Athlete ID: 113120

Rankings & Stats

Starts 17
Podiums 11
Wins 7

Biography

Wakako Tsuchida is the first Japanese athlete to win Paralympic medals at both the Summer and Winter Games.

Wakako, whose impairment is the result of a traffic accident in 1992, took up marathoning in 1999 after switching to para-athletics from ice sledge racing, a sport she won two gold medals in at the 1998 Nagano Paralympics. She then won gold in the 5000m wheelchair race at the 2004 Athens Paralympics and silver in the marathon.

After moving her focus once more to paratriathlon, in 2017 Tsuchida earned her first gold in WPS Yokohama and went on to win the silver medal at the 2018 World Championships on the Gold Coast.

Latest Athlete Results

POS
Date
Event
Program
Time
9
2021-08-24
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
PTWC Women
01:22:32
7
2021-05-15
2021 World Triathlon Para Series Yokohama
PTWC Women
01:18:45
DNS
2021-04-23
2021 Asia Triathlon Championships Hatsukaichi
PTWC Women
DNS
11
2019-08-29
2019 ITU World Triathlon Para Championships Lausanne
PTWC Women
01:30:47
1
2019-08-17
2019 Tokyo ITU Paratriathlon World Cup
PTWC Women
00:59:44

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