Yoko Koikawa
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Full name | Yoko Koikawa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Fukuoka, Japan | May 18, 1974||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle, Backstroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yoko Koikawa (肥川 葉子, Koikawa Yōko) (born May 18, 1974, in Fukuoka, Japan) is a retired Japanese backstroke swimmer, who represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She is best known for winning the gold medal in the Women's 200m Backstroke event at the 1995 Summer Universiade in her hometown Fukuoka.
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Categories:
- 1974 births
- Living people
- Japanese female freestyle swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for Japan
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Japanese female backstroke swimmers
- Summer World University Games medalists in swimming
- Sportspeople from Fukuoka (city)
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Japan
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for Japan
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade
- 20th-century Japanese women
- Japanese swimming biography stubs