Kanako Yonekura
Kanako Yonekura (米 仓 加奈 子jap, Kanako Yonekura, born October 29, 1976 in Kodaira, Tokyo Prefecture ) is a badminton player from Japan.
Career
Your former greater success in badminton as she had them in the Japanese Middle School Championships landed in the 9th grade to the square. Thereafter, she attended the private Joso Gakuin High School in Tsuchiura, have also affected the players Yuya Komatsuzaki, Shuichi Sakamoto or Shizuka Yamamoto went. During her studies at the Tsukuba International University, she won three times in a row from 1996, the Japanese students Championships. After her studies she joined the company in Ibaraki Toyopet.
Kanako Yonekura won their first All-Japan championship 2000 women's singles. In 2005, she made it again all the way up to the podium.
She took in 2000 and 2004 at the Olympic Games in part. At their first appearance they made it to the third round and finished ninth, four years later she divorced already out in round one. The Badminton World Championship 2001 she stood in the quarterfinals. In 1998, she won the Asian Games.