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Emerick Ishikawa

Emerick Ishikawa

American weightlifter (1920–2006)

Emerick K. Ishikawa (October 23, 1920 – November 26, 2006) was an American weightlifter from Hawaii. In 1944 he set a world record in the bantamweight class at the U.S. National Weightlifting Championships.[1] He won Amateur Athletic Union 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.[2] He also competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[3]

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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.[4][5]

He was Japanese-American, and was held for some time at a Japanese American internment camp at Tule Lake in California.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Community Works to Fill Wikipedia's Asian-American, Pacific Islander Gaps". Nbcnews.com. May 8, 2017. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
  2. [2]
    Jonathan H. X. Lee (November 10, 2017). Japanese Americans: The History and Culture of a People. ABC-CLIO. pp. 364–. ISBN 978-1-4408-4190-3.
  3. [3]
    Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Emerick Ishikawa Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
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    Emerick K. Ishikawa. "Ishikawa, Emerick K. | Hawai'i Sports Hall of Fame". Hawaiisportshalloffame.com. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
  5. [5]
    "Inductees by Class Year | Hawai'i Sports Hall of Fame". Hawaiisportshalloffame.com. Archived from the original on October 21, 2019. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
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