Shuhei Nishida
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Native name | 西田 修平 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Japanese | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1910-03-21)March 21, 1910 Nachikatsuura, Wakayama, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | April 13, 1997(1997-04-13) (aged 87) 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 | Pole vault | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Shuhei Nishida (西田 修平, Nishida Shūhei, March 21, 1910 – April 13, 1997) was a Japanese Olympic athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault.[1]
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.[1]
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 awarded the silver and Oe the bronze by decision of the Japanese team, on the basis that Nishida had cleared the height in fewer attempts.[2] 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.[1][3][4]
At the age of 41, Nishida won a bronze medal at the 1951 Asian Games. He remained active in sports all of his life, serving as a referee at events, and from 1959 as an honorary vice chairman of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations, and as a member of the Japanese Olympic Committee. In 1989, he was awarded the silver medal of the Olympic Order. Nishida died of heart failure in 1997 at the age of 87.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Shuhei Nishida. sports-reference.com
- ^ "The Olympians who took matters into their own hands when they weren't allowed to share their medal". Independent.co.uk. 8 August 2016. Archived from the original on 2020-06-05. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
- ^ "The Olympians who took matters into their own hands when they weren't allowed to share their medal". The Independent. 2016-08-05. Archived from the original on 2020-01-01. Retrieved 2020-01-01.
- ^ "Shuhei NISHIDA". Olympic Channel. Archived from the original on 2020-01-01. Retrieved 2020-01-01.
Further reading
- Cousineau Phil. The Olympic Odyssey: Rekindling the True Spirit of the Great Games. Quest Books (2003) ISBN 0835608336
- Mandell, Richard. The Nazi Olympics. University of Illinois Press (1987), ISBN 0252013255
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- 1913: Gensabulo Noguchi
- 1914: Tomonosuke Tomita
- 1915: Hisao Masuda
- 1916: Yunosuke Miyoshi
- 1917: Gensabulo Noguchi
- 1918–19: Kenkichi Tajima
- 1920: Kametaro Shibakawa
- 1921: Hara Kohei
- 1922–23: Yonetaro Nakazawa
- 1924: Not held
- 1925: Sakio Morioka
- 1926: Yukio Kusaba
- 1927–28: Yonetaro Nakazawa
- 1929: Shuhei Nishida
- 1930: Kanemori Souta
- 1931–36: Shuhei Nishida
- 1937: Kiyoshi Adachi
- 1938: Sueo Ōe
- 1939: Atsuto Moriwaki
- 1940: Koichi Nakamura
- 1941: Not held
- 1942: Bunkichi Sawada
- 1943–45: Not held
- 1946: Hiroshi Tanaka
- 1947–54: Bunkichi Sawada
- 1955: Kosuke Furuhata
- 1956: Ryuji Nakayama
- 1957–58: Noriaki Yasuda
- 1959: Masashi Otsubo
- 1960: Noriaki Yasuda
- 1961: Yamada Yasushi
- 1962: Ron Morris (USA)
- 1963: John Pennel (USA)
- 1964: Masashi Otsubo
- 1965: Hisao Morita
- 1966: Kizo Uryu
- 1967: Tetsuo Hirota
- 1968–69: Kiyoshi Niwa
- 1970: Kyoichiro Inoue
- 1971–72: Kiyoshi Niwa
- 1973: Yoshiomi Iwama
- 1974: Kiyoshi Niwa
- 1975–76: Itsuo Takanezawa
- 1977: Yoshiomi Iwama
- 1978: Takumi Takahashi
- 1979: Kiyotaka Konishi
- 1980–81: Takumi Takahashi
- 1982: Cancelled
- 1983–84: Takumi Takahashi
- 1985–89: Toshiyuki Hashioka
- 1990: Igor Potapovich (URS)
- 1991: Akinao Kamiya
- 1992: Hideyuki Takei
- 1993–94: Toshiyuki Hashioka
- 1995: Hideyuki Takei
- 1996: Manabu Yokoyama
- 1997: Hideji Suzuki
- 1998: Fumiaki Kobayashi
- 1999–2000: Daichi Sawano
- 2001: Manabu Yokoyama
- 2002: Satoru Yasuda
- 2003–04: Daichi Sawano
- 2005: Satoru Yasuda
- 2006–09: Daichi Sawano
- 2010: Takafumi Suzuki
- 2011: Daichi Sawano
- 2012–13: Seito Yamamoto
- 2014: Daichi Sawano
- 2015: Hiroki Ogita
- 2016: Daichi Sawano
- 2017–18: Seito Yamamoto
- 2019: Masaki Ejima
- 2020: Koki Kuruma
- 2021: Kosei Takekawa
- 2022: Masaki Ejima
- 2023: Tomoya Karasawa