Kanako Yonekura
Japanese badminton player / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kanako Yonekura (米倉加奈子, Yonekura Kanako, born 29 October 1976 in Kodaira, Tokyo) is a badminton player from Japan.
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Country | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1976-10-29) 29 October 1976 (age 47) Kodaira, Tokyo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 57 kg (126 lb; 9.0 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Handedness | Right | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yonekura won the gold in women's singles of the badminton tournament in the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games, by defeating Gong Zhichao of People's Republic of China in the final.
She played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics, losing to Camilla Martin of Denmark in the round of 32.