is a Japanese para-athlete competing mainly in category F12 long jump and

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events. She holds the Japanese record in both.

Early life and education

Her parents had noticed that Sawada had poor eyesight since she was six years old, but her eyesight deteriorated rapidly after she entered junior high school, and it was discovered that she had retinitis pigmentosa. After graduating from junior high school, she went on to Tokyo Metropolitan Bunkyo School for the Blind, where she began training in athletics after participating in the Tokyo qualifying round for the National Sports Championships for the Disabled as part of her physical education classes.

Sporting career

In 2008, Sawada participated in the

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at the age of 17, the youngest member of the team. Although she was eliminated in the qualifying round for the

, she placed ninth in the long jump with a record of 4.93 meters, improving her personal best by about 30 centimeters. After graduating from Rikkyo University, she left athletics for a while and got a job at a beverage manufacturer. However, she resumed training after that, and again set the Japanese record at the 2017 Japan Para Athletics Championships (5.03 meters). At the 2018 Beijing Grand Prix, she won the 100m and also broke the Japanese record in the long jump with a jump of 5.70 metres. In 2021, at the age of 30, Sawada competed in the delayed

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in Tokyo. She lost in the semifinals of the

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(T12), but placed 5th in the long jump (T12) with a record of 5.15 meters. In addition, she participated in the new Paralympic event, the Universal Relay, with Kengo Oshima, Yuki Takamatsu, and Tomoki Suzuki, and served as the first runner with guide runner Ryuhei Shiokawa. In the final on September 3, Japan finished 4th in a time of 47.98 seconds, but China, which finished 2nd, was disqualified, so she was promoted to 3rd place and won the bronze medal. Sawada is ranked 1st in the world in the long jump (T12) and 6th in the world in the 100m (T12) (as of the end of 2018). On January 31, 2022, Sawada left Mash Holdings Co., Ltd., where she had been affiliated since June 1, 2017, and joined Entry Co., Ltd. on February 1, 2022. She won bronze medals in the women's long jump (T12) at the

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and

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References

External links

Uran Sawada
at the

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