Kyosuke Oyama
Japanese Paralympic swimmer
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Born | 26 December 1987 (1987-12-26) (age 36) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kyosuke Oyama (小山 恭輔, Oyama Kyosuke, born 26 December 1987) is a Paralympic swimmer from Japan competing mainly in category S6 events.
Oyama grew up in Higashikurume in the western part of the Tokyo metropolits. As a junior high school student, he was paralyzed in half of his body.[1]
He competed in the 50m, 100m and 400m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Paralympics but it was in the 50m butterfly that he won his only medal, a silver behind Xu Qing of China who broke the world record in winning the race.[2]
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External links
- Kyosuke Oyama at the International Paralympic Committee
- Kyosuke Oyama - Montreal 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships at the International Paralympic Committee
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