Yoshi Oyakawa
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| Full name | Yoshi Oyakawa | ||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Yoshi" | ||||||||||||
| National team | United States | ||||||||||||
| Born |
August 9, 1933 Kona, Hawaii |
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| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 154 lb (70 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke | ||||||||||||
| Club | Hawaii Swim Club | ||||||||||||
| College team | Ohio State University | ||||||||||||
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Yoshinobu Oyakawa (born August 9, 1933) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. He represented the United States at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, where he won the gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke event. Oyakawa is considered to be the last of the great "straight-arm-pull" backstrokers.
He was inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1973.
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