is a Japanese former windsurfer, who specialized in the RS:X class. She was the country's top female windsurfer for the

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, finishing in thirteenth place. A member of Toyama Sailing Federation, Kosuge trained most of her competitive sporting career for the national team. Kosuge competed for the Japanese sailing squad, as a 34-year-old, in the inaugural women's RS:X class at the

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. She topped the selection criteria in a duel against the quota recipient Yuki Sunaga for the country's RS:X berth, based on her cumulative scores in a series of international regattas approved by the Japan Sailing Federation. Kosuge enjoyed the initial half of the series with a couple of top ten marks recorded, before fading temporarily towards the middle of the fleet. She made a late surge to finish seventh on the final leg but fell short to enter the medal race by the narrowest margin, sitting her in thirteenth overall with 102 net points.

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Yasuko Kosuge at NBC 2008 Olympics website
1974 births Living people Japanese female sailors (sport) Japanese windsurfers Olympic sailors for Japan People from Hayama, Kanagawa Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – RS:X Sportspeople from Kanagawa Prefecture Female windsurfers {{Japan-yachtracing-bio-stub