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Place of Birth: Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, Japan
About Satoshi Saida
- Satoshi Saida (?? ??, Saida Satoshi, born March 26, 1972 in Yokkaichi, Mie) is a Japanese pioneering wheelchair tennis player and 2004 Summer Paralympics gold medalist (Men's doubles with Shingo Kunieda). Saida, a big baseball enthusiast in his childhood, lost his left leg because of illness.
- At first, he used to play wheelchair basketball with his friends.
- At the age of fourteen, he had an opportunity to get to know wheelchair tennis with his basketball teammates at a seminar which took place in his hometown, and started this sport. As a competitor, his first Paralympics was the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, USA.
- At the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia, he got the eighth place.
- With Shingo Kunieda, he participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece, and won the men's doubles event.
- The two competed together again at the 2008 Beijing Games and took bronze in the doubles event.
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