Renshi Chokai
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| Born | February 2, 1999 Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Japanese | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 1.45 m (4 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 50 kg (110 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Renshi Chokai (鳥海連志, Chōkai Renshi, born February 2, 1999) is a Japanese wheelchair basketball player. He won a silver medal in Men's wheelchair basketball, at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[2]
Biography[edit]
Chokai had a congenital tibial defect in both legs and a defect in both fingers and had his lower limbs amputated at the age of three.[1] When he was in the first year of junior high school, he was invited by a school official to meet wheelchair basketball, joined the local Sasebo WBC in Nagasaki, and started playing.[3]
Chokai participated in the 2013 Asian Youth Para Games and won second place.[3] He was called up to training camp for the Japanese national team at the age of 15, and after playing an active part in the 2015 IWBF Asia Oceania Championship in Chiba, he became an established player in the national team.[1][3]
In 2016, while attending Nagasaki Prefectural Osaki High School, Chokai participated in the 2016 Summer Paralympics where he was the youngest player at 17 years and 7 months of age.[3] He became the vice-captain of the men's U23 Japan national team and was selected as one of the top five in the 2017 World Championships.[4] He transferred to Para Kanagawa SC in 2017.[1][3] He then joined WOWOW in 2019.[4]
In February 2022, Chokai published a memoir/personal development book titled Be Different: Thinking beyond the limits of the Tokyo Paralympics wheelchair basketball silver medalist (In Japanese: "異なれ 東京パラリンピック車いすバスケ銀メダリストの限界を超える思考", ISBN ISBN 9784847071386).[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d "今月のパラアスリート×メンズノンノモデル". パラスポ＋！ | PARA SPO PLUS (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 September 2021.
- ^ "Wheelchair Basketball - CHOKAI Renshi". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 9 September 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ a b c d e 東京2020パラリンピック車いすバスケットボール特集 ヤングジャンプ2021年9月5日閲覧 (in Japanese)
- ^ a b "当社に所属する車いすバスケットボール選手3名の東京2020パラリンピック出場決定のお知らせ | ニュース | 株式会社WOWOW". WOWOW (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 September 2021.
- ^ "東京パラ車いすバスケMVP・鳥海連志、初の著書に感慨「自分が本を出せるんだと」". Retrieved 2 July 2022.
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- 1999 births
- Living people
- Japanese men's wheelchair basketball players
- Sportspeople from Nagasaki Prefecture
- Wheelchair category Paralympic competitors
- Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Japan
- Paralympic silver medalists for Japan
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics