Sport Support Activity
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Wakako Tsuchida
Date and place of birth: October 15, 1974, Tokyo, Japan
- Confined to wheelchair after automobile accident during high school
- Captured four medals in ice sledge racing at 1998 Nagano Winter Paralympics; changed specialty to track and field
- Captured three medals including gold through four consecutive Summer Paralympic Games appearances starting with Sydney Paralympic Games (2000)
- Set full-marathon world record in T54 class (record still stands) at 2013 Oita International Wheelchair Marathon
- Captured PTWC class title at ITU World Triathlon Yokohama in May 2017
- Officially announced transition to triathlon in January 2018
- Finished 3rd at Devonport ITU Paratriathlon World Cup (2018)
- Finished 1st at ITU World Triathlon Yokohama, ITU World Triathlon Edmonton (2018)
- Finished 2nd at ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Gold Coast (2018)
Loco Solare
The women’s curling team from Tokoro, Kitami, Hokkaido, was formed in August 2010.
The team name “Loco Solare” is derived from “local” and “Tokorokko” and “solare” which means the sun in Italian. The meaning of the name is “Tokoro people of the sun” so that the team will shine like the sun from the local Tokoro.
Yumeka Kobayashi
Started playing golf at the age of eight, developing her golf skills at Jumbo Ozaki Golf Academy.
In 2021, she passed the very hard test to become a professional golfer for the Japan Ladies Professional Golfers’ Association (JLPGA).
She is noted for her overwhelming physical ability and distance and is seen as a promising player in the world of Japanese women’s golf.
BMW M Team Studie
BMW's official team
In 2008, the team made their first SUPER GT entry with a BMW Z4 M Coupe-based car, and in 2011 they won three races in the Z4 GT3 and won the series championship. In 2014, BMW Motorsport established BMW Sports Trophy Team Studie as a customer racing team in collaboration with BMW Japan. In 2016, BMW Japan's outsourcing team was reorganized as BMW Team Studie, the only one in Asia to bear the title of "BMW Team". BMW Importer and the racing team have teamed up to promote the appeal of the M Model through racing in the SUPER GT.