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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.