is a
Paralympic
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...
swimmer
Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...
from Japan competing mainly in S12 category events.
Koshiro competed in the
2000
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and
2004 Summer Paralympics
)
, nations = 136
, athletes = 3,806
, events = 519 in 19 sports
, opening = 17 September
, closing = 28 September
, opened_by = President Costis Stephanopoulos
, cauldron = Georgios Toptsis
, stadium = Olympic ...
as part of the Japanese swimming team. At the 2000 games he was part of the squad that broke the world record in winning the medley, he also swam in the 100m breaststroke finishing seventh and the 50m, 100m and 400m freestyle events but failed to make the final. At the 2004 games he swam in the 200m individual medley, 100m butterfly and 100m breaststroke failing to make the final in any of them.
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Paralympic swimmers for Japan
Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic gold medalists for Japan
Japanese male butterfly swimmers
Japanese male breaststroke swimmers
Japanese male medley swimmers
Japanese male freestyle swimmers
Living people
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Paralympic medalists in swimming
S12-classified para swimmers
20th-century Japanese people
21st-century Japanese people
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