Yuki Ota

Yūki Ōta (太 田 雄 贵Japanese, Ōta Yūki, born November 25, 1985 in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture) is a Japanese fencer.

Yūki Ōta had his international breakthrough at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where he finished ninth. With the team of Tokyo was at the 2006 World Championships in Turin seventh, 2007 in St. Petersburg Thirteenth. In addition in 2007 tenth in the individual competition. The first international title won Ōta at the Asian Championships in 2007 in Nantong and 2008 in Bangkok. For the most success winning the silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. After Ōta had hit two triple world champion in the quarterfinals with Peter Joppich ( Full 15:12 ) and in the semi-finals with Salvatore Sanzo ( Full 15:14 ), he was beaten in the final 9:15 with Benjamin Kleibrink. In 2010 Yūki Ōta won a bronze medal at the World Championships in Paris, the same year he finished third in the world rankings. With the Japanese team, he won at the 2012 Olympics, the silver medal in the individual he reached the fourteenth place.

Four times could Ōta second place at World Cup events erfechten.