[Sports News / Kyoto]On October 8, 3rd year of Reiwa, Miho Yoshioka, who won the 7th place in the 32nd Olympic Games Sailing Women’s 470 (Yonnanamaru) class, was awarded the Kyoto Prefecture Sports Award “Excellence Award”. Yoshioka said, “I’m sorry as a result, but I have no regrets because I’ve done everything I’ve done.” “I think I can only get rid of my regrets at the Olympics, so I want to do my best with the determination that Paris will be the last.” ◆ Miho Yoshioka (Utsugi / Mikuni) belongs to the volleyball club until junior high school. After enrolling in Hyogo Prefectural Ashiya High School, I will start sailing. When I was in the 4th year of college, I participated in Lake Biwa All Japan Intercollegiate, but it ended in incomplete combustion and I was planning to retire after graduation. However, Ai Yoshida, who participated in the London Olympics, called out, and after graduating, he joined Benesse and formed a pair. In 2013, he made his first appearance in the World Championship and finished 10th. In 2016, he also made his first appearance at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and won 5th place. In August 2019, he won the silver medal at the Sailing 470 Class World Championship held in Enoshima, Kanagawa Prefecture, and was appointed as the representative of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He won the 7th place at the Tokyo Olympics held in Enoshima in 2021.
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