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    Retrieved April 28, 2024. "Yoshi Oyakawa, 1973 ISHOF Honor Swimmer". U.S. Masters Swimming. Retrieved February 19, 2018. "Yoshi Oyakawa, Olympedia Biography"...
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  • Hughes Tim Jecko Ford Konno Frank McKinney Jack Nelson George Onekea Yoshi Oyakawa Reid Patterson David Radcliff Sonny Tanabe Albert Wiggins Bill Woolsey...
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  • Honor: CRS RL30011, p. 18. June 4, 2008. "Stories About USMS Swimmers: Yoshi Oyakawa". Retrieved October 12, 2007. Medal of Honor: CRS RL30011, p. 19. June...
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    techniques. Following Yoshi Oyakawa as the premier U.S. backstroker, McKinney was the pioneer of the modern bent-arm backstrokers, even as Oyakawa had been the...
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  • medal in the 1948 Olympics, while Tommy Kono (weightlifting), Yoshinobu Oyakawa (100-meter backstroke) and Ford Konno (1500-meter freestyle) each won gold...
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  •  Japan 18:41.4 Tetsuo Okamoto  Brazil 18:51.3 100 m backstroke details Yoshi Oyakawa  United States 1:05.4 (OR) Gilbert Bozon  France 1:06.2 Jack Taylor...
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  • two Olympic medalists during his coaching years, Sonny Tanabe, and Yoshi Oyakawa, Hawaii's first Olympic gold medalist in 1956. Kawamoto was born in...
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    Kobashigawa (U.S. World War II soldier and Medal of Honor recipient) Yoshi Oyakawa (Olympic gold medalist) Ethel Azama (singer) David Ige (former Governor...
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  • Gold Yoshi Oyakawa  United States Silver Gilbert Bozon  France Bronze Jack Taylor  United States...
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  • Jesse Owens, track and field 1936 Berlin Olympic Games four gold medals Yoshi Oyakawa, swimming 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games gold medal Jerry Page, boxing...
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    Men's 100 m Freestyle Ford Konno — Swimming, Men's 1500 m Freestyle Yoshi Oyakawa — Swimming, Men's 100 m Backstroke Ford Konno, Jimmy McLane, Wayne Moore...
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  • States 1:06.5 Georges Vallerey Jr.  France 1:07.8 1952 Helsinki details Yoshi Oyakawa  United States 1:05.4 OR Gilbert Bozon  France 1:06.2 Jack Taylor  United...
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  • Hills Scott Klingenbeck, former MLB player for the Cincinnati Reds Yoshi Oyakawa (former faculty member/ coach), 1952 Olympic gold medalist in the 100m...
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    lieutenant governor of Hawaii Pat Saiki (1948), United States Congresswoman Yoshi Oyakawa (1951), Olympic swimming gold medalist in the 1952 Summer Olympics Gil...
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  • Ottenbrite Canada Swimmer 1999 Kristin Otto East Germany Swimmer 1993 Yoshi Oyakawa United States Swimmer 1973 Henri Padou France Water Polo Player 1970...
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  •  Japan 18:41.4 Tetsuo Okamoto  Brazil 18:51.3 100 m backstroke details Yoshi Oyakawa  United States 1:05.4 (OR) Gilbert Bozon  France 1:06.2 Jack Taylor...
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  • Burwell Jones Ford Konno Jimmy McLane Wayne Moore Monte Nitzkowski Yoshi Oyakawa Clarke Scholes Don Sheff Allen Stack Bowen Stassforth Jack Taylor Wally...
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    Burwell Jones Ford Konno Jimmy McLane Wayne Moore Monte Nitzkowski Yoshi Oyakawa Clarke Scholes Don Sheff Allen Stack Bowen Stassforth Jack Taylor Wally...
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    that year included Ford Konno, Evelyn Kawamoto, Dick Cleveland, and Yoshi Oyakawa. Travelling with the team that summer, he represented the United States...
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    Hughes Tim Jecko Ford Konno Frank McKinney Jack Nelson George Onekea Yoshi Oyakawa Reid Patterson David Radcliff Sonny Tanabe Albert Wiggins Bill Woolsey...
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    Burwell Jones Ford Konno Jimmy McLane Wayne Moore Monte Nitzkowski Yoshi Oyakawa Clarke Scholes Don Sheff Allen Stack Bowen Stassforth Jack Taylor Wally...
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  • at Ohio State included Olympic medalists Bill Smith, Ford Konno and Yoshi Oyakawa. All three were from Hawaii, and all but Konno had been coached by Soichi...
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  • Hughes Tim Jecko Ford Konno Frank McKinney Jack Nelson George Onekea Yoshi Oyakawa Reid Patterson David Radcliff Sonny Tanabe Albert Wiggins Bill Woolsey...
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  • was interested in backstroke, this discipline was then dominated by Yoshi Oyakawa, which led Wiggins to explore other styles. Wiggins retired from competitions...
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  • Burwell Jones Ford Konno Jimmy McLane Wayne Moore Monte Nitzkowski Yoshi Oyakawa Clarke Scholes Don Sheff Allen Stack Bowen Stassforth Jack Taylor Wally...
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  • home competition he swam with Hilo High teammate and future Olympian Yoshi Oyakawa, who lost to a strong McKinley High School team from Honolulu that included...
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    Hilo Aquatics Club, where he trained future Olympic swimmers including Yoshi Oyakawa, Ed Kawachika, Denise Baker, Laurence Hao, and Sonny Tanabe. The county...
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