Yoshiko Sato
is a retired Japanese freestyle swimmer who won seven gold medals at the Asian Games in 1958–1962. She competed at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics in five sprint events in total with the best result of seventh place in the 4×100 m medley relay.Nationally Sato won four consecutive titles in the 100 m (1958–1961) and seven consecutive titles in the 200 m (1955–1961). From 1954 to 1962 she set 97 national records in freestyle events ranging from 50 to 1500 m, which remains an all-time record on its own.
In 1963, Sato retired from competitions and next year married Yoshihiko Osaki, a fellow swimmer who also competed at the 1960 Olympics. She took his last name and since then is known as Yoshiko Osaki. She resumed competing in 1984, in the masters category. Since 1985 she took part in all World and Pan Pacific championships, winning 20 world and 17 Pan Pacific titles and setting 93 world records in the freestyle, butterfly and medley events. She also set 104 national masters records and won 123 national titles. In 2005, she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame, in the masters category.
Her late husband was also an avid masters swimmer and chairman of the Japanese Masters Swimming Association. The couple had a son and two daughters. Provided by Wikipedia
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4by Kumiko A Iwabuchi, Tatsuya Yamakawa, Yoshiko Sato, Tomoko Ichisaka, Kazutoshi Takahashi, Keisuke Okita, Shinya YamanakaGet full text
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6by Candida Elisa Manfio, Sérgio Yoshimitsu Motoike, Marcos Deon Vilela de Resende, Carlos Eduardo Magalhães dos Santos, Aurora Yoshiko SatoGet full text
Published 2012-03-01
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8by Aurora Yoshiko Sato, Dulcimara de Carvalho Nannetti, José Eduardo Brasil Pereira Pinto, José Oswaldo Siqueira, Maria de Fátima Arrigoni BlankGet full text
Published 1999-03-01
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9by Candida Elisa Manfio, Sérgio Yoshimitsu Motoike, Carlos Eduardo Magalhães dos Santos, Leonardo Duarte Pimentel, Vanessa de Queiroz, Aurora Yoshiko SatoGet full text
Published 2011-01-01
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10by João Batista Lúcio Corrêa, Herly Carlos Teixeira Dias, Kelly Cristina Tonello, Valdir de Cicco, Elias Silva, Lucas Jesus da Silveira, Aurora Yoshiko SatoGet full text
Published 2018-03-01
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11by Fangping Jia, Pan Diao, Xiaojing Wang, Xiao Hu, Takefumi Kimura, Makoto Nakamuta, Ibuki Nakamura, Saki Shirotori, Yoshiko Sato, Kyoji Moriya, Kazuhiko Koike, Frank J. Gonzalez, Jun Nakayama, Toshifumi Aoyama, Naoki TanakaGet full text
Published 2020-07-01
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