Yukiaki Okabe

Yukiaki Okabe (岡部幸明, Okabe Yukiaki, April 24, 1941 – January 26, 2018) was a Japanese freestyle swimmer. He was part of the Japanese teams that set a world record in 1963. Okabe won an Olympic bronze medal in 1964 in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. In 1964 he also finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and fifth in the 4 × 100 m medley relay.^[1]

Okabe died of pneumonia in Tokyo on January 26, 2018 at the age of 76.^[2]

References

↑ "Yukiaki Okabe". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
↑ 東京五輪銅メダリスト、岡部幸明氏が死去 Archived 2020-05-02 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)

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[sref-1] "Yukiaki Okabe". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2018-04-02.

[2] 東京五輪銅メダリスト、岡部幸明氏が死去 Archived 2020-05-02 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)

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