Seiko Hashimoto

Seiko Hashimoto (Japanese桥本 圣 子, Hashimoto Seiko; born Ishizaki (石 崎 圣 子), born October 5, 1964 in Hayakita (now Abira ), Hokkaidō Prefecture) is a Japanese politician (LDP, Machimura faction ) and former speed skater and track bike rider. With a total of seven appearances at Olympic Games, four times in the winter and three times in the summer, it is one of the record keepers among all female Olympians in terms of the number of participants.

Sporting career

Hashimoto began at the age of three years with the ice skating. In the Speed ​​Skating Sprint World Championships 1989, she won the bronze medal in the all-around world championships in 1990 and 1992 silver bronze.

1984 in Sarajevo took Hashimoto first time in the Olympic Games. Your first and only Olympic medal she won her third Winter Games in Albertville in 1992 in the 1500-meter speed skating. In 1994, she joined the Games in Lillehammer in yet a fourth time.

In the summer months, Hashimoto turned regularly to the track cycling. They qualified for three Olympic Games, but was not in Seoul in 1988, Barcelona in 1992 still in their recent Games in Atlanta in 1996, reaching top rankings. In 1994, she had moved into the professional.

Political career

Hashimoto is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP). For the LDP she was first elected to the upper house of the Japanese parliament in 1995 for country-wide proportional representation and re-elected three times since then. 2001, it reached 265 545 of the newly introduced preferential votes 6th place on the LDP list, 2007 with 221 361 votes list Platz 11, 2013 with 279 952 votes 5th place

In 1996, she was preparing in addition to their parliamentary tasks in parallel prior to the Olympic Games.

From 2001 to 2002 Hashimoto sat in front of the cult and scientific committee of the Sangiin. From 2003 to 2004 she was in the LDP Deputy Secretary General, as of 2003 they led at times also the LDP Prefecture Hokkaido Association, since 2011 she has been chairman of the LDP Sapporo. In 2005 she was chairman of the department of women in the LDP. In the 2007 election campaign for election to the LDP Chairman, who decided on the prime minister during the decades of LDP government, she led the support group of Yasuo Fukuda ( Machimura faction ) to meet the necessary quorum of 20 nominating deputies for a candidacy. While the Cabinet Asō it was 2008-2009 State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2010 and 2011 it belonged to the LDP shadow cabinets of Sadakazu Tanigaki as shadow Minister for action against the falling birth rate, sports and gender equality.

Sports Political Career

Since 2006, Hashimoto is the president of the Japan Skating Federation. She was an active part of Tokyo's application for the 2016 Summer Olympics, which were awarded to Rio de Janeiro eventually.

Others

Hashimoto was born shortly before the Summer Olympic Games in 1964, which is why she called her father after the Japanese word for the Olympic Flame, seika (Japanese圣火).