Yuriko Fujii
{{Short description|Japanese boccia player}}
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Yuriko Fujii is a Japanese boccia player. She won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the mixed pairs BC1-2 boccia event and a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the mixed team BC1-2 boccia event.{{cite web |title=Yuriko Fujii |url=https://www.paralympic.org/yuriko-fujii |publisher=Paralympics |access-date=12 December 2023}}
Career
Fujii and her teammates Takayuki Hirose, Takayuki Kitani, and Hidetaka Sugimura helped secure Japan's first ever silver medal in Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.{{cite news |title=Japan boccia squad claims silver medal in Rio |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/09/13/olympics/japan-boccia-squad-claims-silver-medal-rio/ |access-date=12 December 2023 |publisher=Japan Times |date=13 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913123841/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/09/13/olympics/japan-boccia-squad-claims-silver-medal-rio/#.V9fzW-zP32c |archive-date=13 September 2016}}{{cite news |title=Japan clinches first medal in boccia at Rio Paralympics |url=https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160913/p2a/00m/0na/017000c |access-date=12 December 2023 |publisher=Mainichi Shimbun |date=13 September 2016}} The following Paralympic Games, Fujii, Hirose, and Takumi Nakamura won a bronze medal in the mixed team BC1-2 boccia event.{{cite web |title=Tokyo 2020: Takeaways from boccia |url=https://www.paralympic.org/news/tokyo-2020-takeaways-boccia |publisher=Paralympics |access-date=12 December 2023 |date=18 October 2021}} Fujii won another bronze medal the following year at the 2022 Boccia World Championships.{{cite web |title=14 countries medaled in the individual matches of the Rio de Janeiro 2022 World Boccia Championships |url=https://rio2022boccia.com.br/14-countries-medaled-in-the-individual-matches-of-the-rio-de-janeiro-2022-world-boccia-championships/ |website=rio2022boccia.com |access-date=12 December 2023 |date=11 December 2022}}
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Category:Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Category:Boccia players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Category:Paralympic boccia players for Japan
Category:Paralympic medalists in boccia
Category:Paralympic silver medalists for Japan
Category:Paralympic bronze medalists for Japan
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Boccia players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
Category:21st-century Japanese sportswomen
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