ATHLETE

Graduated from Tsuruga High School and Kokushikan University. He has joined SENKO Co., Ltd. in April 2023. In addition to setting a junior high school record (17.85m/5kg) in his third year of junior high school, he also won the National Junior High School Athletic Festival with a new tournament record. At Tsuruga High School, he also participated in the Inter-High School Championships in the discus throw. After entering Kokushikan University, his potential blossomed, and he won the Japan Inter-College Meet (All Japan University Track & Field Challenge Meeting) in his fourth year. In 2023, the year after he became a member of society, he won the Japan Championships for the first time and finally became the top in Japan. In 2024, in addition to winning the Japan Championships for the second consecutive time, he won the All-Japan Business Team Championship and the National Sports Tournament to achieve the "National Triple Crown". In August of the same year, he hit an unprecedented 19-meter mark and became the strongest athlete in Japan in both name and reality. In 2025, he will challenge the world with the aim of achieving even greater heights.

Born deaf, she attended Sakado School for the Deaf in Saitama Prefecture. In high school, she attended a regular school and went on to Daito Bunka University. She started karate at the age of four and won numerous competitions in kata. She also tried kumite when she was in college and has continued to work mainly in kumite since then. She made her debut at the Deaflympics in Caxias do Sul 2022, where she won gold medals in both kata and kumite events. Currently, she works as a teacher at her alma mater, Sakado School for the Deaf, and trains every day with the aim of winning two consecutive events at the Tokyo 2025 Deaflympics.