Sachiko Yamada (swimmer)

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Sachiko Yamada (山田沙知子, Yamada Sachiko, born October 15, 1982 in Osaka, Japan)^[1] is an Olympic and former World-Record-holding freestyle swimmer from Japan. She swam for Japan at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.

Major achievements

2000 Olympics - 800m freestyle 8th (8:37.39)
2004 Olympics - 400m freestyle 6th (4:10.91)

Personal bests

In long course

400m freestyle: 4:07.23
800m freestyle: 8:23.68 Asian Record

References

↑ Yamada's entry from www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2011-08-03.

http://www.joc.or.jp/athens/athlete/swimming/yamadasachiko.html

External links

(Japanese) Sachiko's Happy Diary

Records
Preceded by CHEN Hua	World Record Holder Women's 800 Freestyle (25m) February 4, 2002 – December 9, 2005	Succeeded by Laure Manaudou

v t e World Short Course Champions in Women's 800 m Freestyle

1993: Janet Evans (USA) 1995: Sarah Hardcastle (GBR) 1997: Natasha Bowron (AUS) 1999: Chen Hua (CHN) 2000: Chen Hua (CHN) 2002: Chen Hua (CHN) 2004: Sachiko Yamada (JPN) 2006: Anastasiya Ivanenko (RUS) 2008: Rebecca Adlington (GBR) 2010: Erika Villaécija García (ESP) 2012: Lauren Boyle (NZL)

v t e Summer Universiade Champions in Women's 1500 m Freestyle

1993: Christine Stephenson (USA) 1995: Tobie Smith (USA) 1997: Suzanne Black (USA) 1999: Cara Lane (USA) 2001: Sachiko Yamada (JPN) 2003: Rebecca Cooke (GBR) 2005: Hayley Peirsol (USA) 2007: Flavia Rigamonti (SUI) 2009: Yumi Kida (JPN) 2011: Haley Anderson (USA) 2013: Stephanie Peacock (USA)

Persondata
Name	Yamada, Sachiko
Alternative names
Short description	Japanese swimmer
Date of birth	1982
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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