It looks like Miho Yoshioka, who is representing Japan in the women’s 470 class sailing event at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics, is a graduate of Hyogo Prefectural Ashiya High School!
Screenshot from the NHK Tokyo Olympics special site
Screenshot from the official Benesse Sailing Team website
It says she “started sailing in her first year of high school,” so she began competing during her time at Ken-Ashi! Since Ken-Ashi has a “Yacht Club”, club activities may have been what got her started.
↑ Exterior of Prefectural Ashiya High School
Here is the map for Prefectural Ashiya High School↓
The address is 6-3 Miyagawa-cho, Ashiya City, Hyogo Prefecture.
The first race of the women’s 470 class in the Tokyo Olympics sailing competition is scheduled to start at 14:50 on Wednesday, July 28.
The races will be streamed live on gorin.jp, so you can cheer her on from inside Ashiya City too!
