Akiko Adachi

Japanese goalball player
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroJapanese goalball player
PlacesJapan
isAthlete
Work fieldSports
Gender
Female
Birth10 September 1983, Yame, Japan
Age41 years
Star signVirgo
The details

Biography

Akiko Adachi (安達 阿記子, Adachi Akiko, born 10 September 1983) is a Japanese goalball player who won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. She scored the game-winning goal in the final against China.

She was diagnosed with macular degeneration in her right eye when she was 14 years old. When she was 20, a visual condition also developed in her left eye, causing impairment. She began playing goalball in 2006, at age 23.

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