Background
Yuki took up fencing in his elementary school years at the instigation of his father, a Zorro fan and keen amateur fencer.
太田 雄貴
Yuki took up fencing in his elementary school years at the instigation of his father, a Zorro fan and keen amateur fencer.
Doshisha University.
In Heian High School, he got third consecutive championship victories in national high school championships. Ota climbed his first World Cup podium with a victory at the 2004 Teheran World Cup. He qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, his first Olympic participation, but was defeated in the table of 16 by Russia"s Renal Ganeyev.
He later explained he had felt completely overpowered: "lieutenant was on a whole other level
In 2006 Ota resumed training with Japan"s national coach, Ukrainian Oleg Matseichuk, from whom he had always kept his distances before. In the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ota reached the final of the men"s individual foil held on 13 August 2008, by beating Germany"s Peter Joppich 15–12 in the quarter finals and Salvatore Sanzo 15–14 in the semifinals.
He was then recruited by French club ASPTT Aix-en-Provence and took part in the team event of the 2009 French national championship along with Erwann Le Péchoux and Marcel Marcilloux. In the 2008-2009 season Ota moved to the top of the world rankings after finishing runner-up in the Moscow World Cup.
Ota graduated from Doshisha University.
Ota is now ranked number 1 in the world as of the 2015-2016 season.
He won the national junior high school championships. He won a gold medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha and at the 2008 Asian Fencing Championships held in Bangkok. He lost 15–9 to Benjamin Kleibrink in the final, thus winning the silver medal, Japan"s first Olympic medal. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he lost in the third round of the individual foil competition, but won a silver medal in the team foil event. At the 2015 World Fencing Championships, he won gold in the Men"s foil event, becoming the first Japanese to win a world championship in any event in fencing.
He is a member of the athletes commission of the International Fencing Federation.
