Shuhei Nishida
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| Native name | 西田 修平 |
| Nationality | Japan |
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May 21, 1910 Nachikatsuura, Wakayama, Japan |
| Died | April 13, 1997 (aged 86). Tokyo, Japan |
| Alma mater | Waseda University |
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) |
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| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Pole vault |
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Shuhei Nishida (西田 修平 Nishida Shūhei?, May 21, 1910 – April 13, 1997) was a Japanese Olympic athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault.
Nishida was born in what is now part of Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. He was a student of the Engineering Department at Waseda University, when selected as a member of the Japanese Olympic team for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where he won the silver medal in the pole vault event.
After graduation from Waseda University, he obtained a job at Hitachi. He subsequently participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany where he repeated his performance winning a second silver medal in the same event tying with his friend and teammate Sueo Oe. When the two declined to compete against each other to decide a winner, Nishida was arbitrarily awarded the silver and Oe the bronze. The competition was featured in a scene in the documentary Olympia, filmed by Leni Riefenstahl. On their return to Japan, Nishida and Oe famously had their Olympic medals cut in half, and had a jeweler splice together two new “friendship medals”, half in bronze and half in silver.
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