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Hiroko Nagasaki

b. 1968

Japanese swimmer

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Born 1968. Hiroko Nagasaki is a Japanese swimmer.

is a Japanese former swimmer who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics. She won the 100m breaststroke event at New Delhi Asiad in 1982.

Nagasaki was named to the Japanese national swimming team at the age of twelve, making her the team's first ever primary school student. However she did not participate in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow as Japan joined the boycott of the games in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. After the 1984 Summer Olympics, she dropped out of to study abroad, first at the University of California, Berkeley, and later at Brigham Young University. Along with Kim Chen and Atlee Mahorn, she was one of three UC Berkeley students who competed for non-US teams at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Nagasaki retired from swimming after the 1988 games and worked for the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC). In 1995, she married , her former boss at the JOC. The couple went on to have three daughters. She was one of the torchbearers in the Akita leg of the 2020 Summer Olympics torch relay.

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Who is Hiroko Nagasaki?

Japanese swimmer

When was Hiroko Nagasaki born?

Hiroko Nagasaki was born on 27 July 1968 in Akita.

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Hiroko Nagasaki is a swimmer.

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Hiroko Nagasaki is Japanese.

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· Wikipedia: Hiroko Nagasaki

· Wikidata: Q5770393

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