Sho Sasaki | |||||||||||||
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Country | Japan | ||||||||||||
Born |
Hokkaido, Japan |
June 30, 1982 ||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||
Handedness | Left | ||||||||||||
Coach | Keita Masuda | ||||||||||||
Men's singles | |||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 6 (November 3, 2011) | ||||||||||||
Current ranking | 28 (November 2,2016) | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 01:41, 28 May 2014 (UTC). |
Sho Sasaki (佐々木 翔 Sasaki Shō?, born June 30, 1982 in Hokkaido) is a male badminton player from Japan. He is the third seed of men singles in Japan after Kenichi Tago and Kento Momota.He competed in four Asian Games from 2002 to 2014.
In 2007 he won the Japanese National Championships in men's singles, and 7 international tournaments: the Bahrain Satellite Badminton Tournament, the Banuinvest International Championships, the Osaka International Challenge, the Israel International, the Mauritius International, the Victorian International and the Italian International. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he reached the quarter-finals of the men's singles, losing to Lin Dan.