Emi Yasuo

Emi Yasuo (born 10 June 1993) is a Japanese wheelchair basketball player, living in Oita. She is a member of the Japan women's national wheelchair basketball team and her club Kyushu Dolphin.  In 2021 she competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Life
Yasuo was born with arthrogryposis and as a result of that she has paralysis in her legs. Once while shopping in a supermarket she met wheelchair basketball player Miki Hirai, who invited her to start playing wheelchair basketball, but she didn't do that. After graduating from high school, she came back to basketball.

Due to the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes, houses of her family and relatives were destroyed. She decided to move to Oita from Kumamoto and to continue her sporting careerk. The next year she became the "Most Valuable Player" at the 2017 National Junior Championships. She won  the silver medal, with the national team at the 2018 Asian Para Games in Jakarta. She competed at the 2019 Asia Oceania Championship for Women.

In 2019 she was awarded an "Excellence Award" by the Oita Prefecture Para Sports Association.

 References 

 Other websites 

 2018. Emi Yasuo (JPN) Wheelchair Basketball : Women's Preliminary Round between Japan - Thailand

Category:1993 births
Category:Japanese wheelchair basketball players
Category:Living people