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WAKAKO TSUCHIDA Wakako Tsuchida is the first Japanese athlete to win Paralympic medals at both Summer and Winter Games. Wakako, whose impairment is the result of a traffic accident in 1992, took up marathoning in 1999 after switching to para-athletics from ice sledge racing, a sport she won two gold medals in at the 1998 Nagano Paralympics. She then won gold in the 5000m wheelchair race at the 2004 Athens Paralympics and silver in the marathon. After moving her focus once more to paratriathlon, in 2017 Tsuchida got the first podiums on her para triathlon career. Paralympic Games - Other Major Games - World Champion Silver 2018 World Championships WTPS Starts / Wins / Podiums 7 / 3 / 5 More info about Wakako ATHLETES BIOS PTWC/H2 JPN 110 81 - World Triathlon Media Guide Tokyo 2020 - Paralympics