Emerick K. Ishikawa (October 23, 1920 – November 26, 2006) was an American

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lif ...

from Hawaii. In 1944 he set a world record in the

bantamweight Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports. For boxing, the range is above and up to . In kickboxing, a bantamweight fighter generally weighs between . In MMA, bantamweight is . The name for the class is derived from bantam chickens. Bra ...

class at the U.S. National Weightlifting Championships. He won

Amateur Athletic Union The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is an amateur sports organization based in the United States. A multi-sport organization, the AAU is dedicated exclusively to the promotion and development of amateur sports and physical fitness programs. It has ...

championships as a bantamweight in 1944 and 1945, and as a featherweight in 1946 and 1947. In 1947 he also won a bronze medal in the featherweight class of the World Championships. He also competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1948 Summer Olympics. In 1975 he was inducted into the (American) National Weightlifting Hall of Fame, and in 1999 he was inducted into the

Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame The Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame is a sports hall of fame and museum in the U.S. state of Hawaii. According to the hall's official website, it servers as the "state museum for sports history in the islands," and "is best described as an educational ...

. He was Japanese-American, and was held for some time at a Japanese American internment camp at

Tule Lake Tule Lake ( ) is an intermittent lake covering an area of , long and across, in northeastern Siskiyou County and northwestern Modoc County in California, along the border with Oregon. Geography Tule Lake is fed by the Lost River. The elev ...

in California.

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* 1920 births 2006 deaths American male weightlifters American sportspeople of Japanese descent {{US-weightlifting-bio-stub Japanese-American internees Olympic weightlifters of the United States Place of birth missing Weightlifters at the 1948 Summer Olympics 20th-century American people