is a Japanese

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...

player who competed at the

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and

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

. He won the national men's singles title in 1994 and 1996. He also won the national men's doubles title in 1995 with Seiichi Watanabe.

Career

Machida competed in the men's singles event at the

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where he lost the second round to eventual champion

Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen (born 20 September 1965) is the current President of the Badminton World Federation and a retired Danish badminton player who won major international singles titles in the 1990s, and ranks among Denmark's badminton greats. ...

. He then made his second appearance at the Olympics in

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where he reached the third round but lost to Park Sung-woo. In 1997, he won a silver medal in men's singles at the 1997 Asian Games.

Achievements

East Asian Games

''Men's singles''

References

1969 births Living people Japanese male badminton players Olympic badminton players for Japan Badminton players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Badminton players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Japanese people {{Japan-badminton-bio-stub