Athlete Profile: Wakako Tsuchida H2

Wakako Tsuchida H2

Japan
Born: 1974

Rankings
ITU Paralympic Qualification Ranking	9
Paratriathlon Ranking	3

Starts

13

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.

11	2019 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Lausanne 01 Sep, 2019 - PTWC Women - 01:30:47
1	2019 Tokyo ITU Paratriathlon World Cup 17 Aug, 2019 - PTWC Women - 00:59:44
2	2019 Groupe Copley World Paratriathlon Series Montreal 28 Jun, 2019 - PTWC Women - 01:08:26
1	2019 Gyeongju ASTC Triathlon Asian Championships 22 Jun, 2019 - PTWC Women - 01:14:58
4	2019 Yokohama ITU World Paratriathlon Series 18 May, 2019 - PTWC Women - 01:10:23
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Athlete Fact Sheet

Given Name	Wakako
Family Name	Tsuchida H2
Representing	JPN
Paratriathlon Class	PTWC
Paratriathlon Subclass	H2
Year of Birth	1974
Place of Birth	1974.10.15
Residence	Tamashi, Japan