Yuriko Fujii is a Japanese

boccia Boccia ( ) is a precision ball sport, similar to bocce, and related to bowls and pétanque. The name "boccia" is derived from the Latin word for "boss" – '. The sport is contested at local, national and international levels, by athletes ...

player. She won a silver medal at the

2016 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 159 , athletes = 4,342 , opening = 7 September , closing = 18 September , opened_by = President Michel Temer , cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva , events = 528 in 22 sports , stadium = Maracanã , sum ...

in the mixed pairs BC1-2 boccia event and a bronze medal at the

2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym ...

in the mixed team BC1-2 boccia event.

Career

Fujii and her teammates Takayuki Hirose, Takayuki Kitani, and

Hidetaka Sugimura is a Japanese boccia player. He has represented Japan since 2010 and in the Summer Paralympics since 2012. Career Sugimura and his teammates Yuriko Fujii, Takayuki Hirose and Takayuki Kitani helped secure Japan's first ever silver medal in B ...

helped secure Japan's first ever silver medal in Boccia at the

. The following Paralympic Games, Fujii, Hirose, and Takumi Nakamura won a bronze medal in the mixed team BC1-2 boccia event. Fujii won another bronze medal the following year at the 2022 Boccia World Championships.

References

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