Kiyoko Ono
Kiyoko Ono | ||||||||||||||||
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— Gymnast — | ||||||||||||||||
Kiyoko Ono at the 1964 Olympics | ||||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Japan | |||||||||||||||
Born |
Iwanuma, Miyagi, Japan | February 4, 1936|||||||||||||||
Height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||
Weight | 60 kg (130 lb) | |||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kiyoko Ono (小野 清子 Ono Kiyoko, born February 4, 1936) is a retired Japanese politician and gymnast. She competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a team bronze medal in 1964.[1]
Politician
Ono won the election in 1986 and was one of the members in the House of Councillors for 1986 to 2007.[1] While Ono occupied the seat she once served as a Minister of State (a chairman of National Safety Commission)
Ono is affiliated to the openly revisionist organization Nippon Kaigi.[2]
Family
Ono's father died when she was three months old. In 1958 she graduated from the Tokyo University of Education and married Takashi Ono, a fellow Olympic gymnast. They have two sons and three daughters; the first two children were born between 1961 and 1963 while both parents were actively competing.[3][4]
References
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- 1 2 Kiyoko Ono. sports-reference.com
- ↑ Nippon Kaigi website
- ↑ 第1章 体操との出会い. Japanese Olympic Committee (interview in Japanese)
- ↑ 読売新聞大阪本社運動部 (1996). ザ・ヒーロー戦後スポーツの40人 (in Japanese). 読売新聞. ISBN 4-643-96076-0.