Eiko Kakehata
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is a Japanese
goalball Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a visual impairment, vision impairment. Participants compete in teams of three, and try to throw a ball with bells embedded inside it into the opponents' goal. The ball is throw ...
player who won a gold medal at the
2012 Summer Paralympics The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international Multi-sport event, multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the 14th Sum ...
. She has
albinism Albinism is the congenital absence of melanin in an animal or plant resulting in white hair, feathers, scales and skin and reddish pink or blue eyes. Individuals with the condition are referred to as albinos. Varied use and interpretation of ...
which caused her visual impairment. She started playing goalball when she was 16. Her father Mitsunori Kakehata (欠端光則) played professional
baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...
for the Yokohama Taiyo Whales (now
Yokohama DeNA BayStars The are a professional baseball team in the Japanese Central League. Their home field is Yokohama Stadium, located in central Yokohama. The team has been known by several names since becoming a professional team in 1950. It adopted its current n ...
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* 1993 births Living people Japanese female goalball players Paralympic goalball players for Japan Paralympic gold medalists for Japan Paralympic bronze medalists for Japan Paralympic medalists in goalball Goalball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Goalball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Goalball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2014 Asian Para Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Para Games People with albinism Sportspeople from Yokohama 21st-century Japanese sportswomen {{Goalball-bio-stub