was a Japanese

freestyle Freestyle may refer to: Brands * Reebok Freestyle, a women's athletic shoe * Ford Freestyle, an SUV automobile * Coca-Cola Freestyle, a vending machine * ICD Freestyle, a paintball marker * Abbott FreeStyle, a blood glucose monitor by Abbott La ...

swimmer. She participated in two Olympic Games with

Hideko Maehata was a Japanese breaststroke swimmer and the first Japanese woman to earn a gold medal in the Olympics. Maehata was born in Hashimoto, Wakayama, as the daughter of a tofu producer and as a child learned to swim in the Kinokawa River. In the fift ...

, both of whom were from the same area, and Moriaka competed the individual 400 m and 4 × 100 m relay events at the

1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...

and

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

Women swimming competitors at the 1926 Berlin Olympic Games; (l-r) Eiko Matsumura, Unoko Tsuboi, Tsuneko Furuta, Hatsuko Morioka, Rei Takemura, Kazue Kojima. Photographed in Berlin in July, 1936. Photographer: Masao Takada, Mainichi Shimbun. with the best result of fifth place in the relay in 1932.

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