Shuhei Nishida
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Nishida was born in what is now part of Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. He was a student of the Engineering Department at Waseda University, when selected as a member of the Japanese Olympic team for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where he won the silver medal in the pole vault event.[1]
After graduation from Waseda University, he obtained a job at Hitachi. He subsequently participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany where he repeated his performance winning a second silver medal in the same event tying with his friend and teammate Sueo Oe. When the two declined to compete against each other to decide a winner, Nishida was awarded the silver and Oe the bronze by decision of the Japanese team, on the basis that Nishida had cleared the height in fewer attempts.[2] The competition was featured in a scene in the documentary Olympia, filmed by Leni Riefenstahl. On their return to Japan, Nishida and Oe famously had their Olympic medals cut in half, and had a jeweler splice together two new “friendship medals”, half in bronze and half in silver.[1][3][4]
At the age of 41, Nishida won a bronze medal at the 1951 Asian Games. He remained active in sports all of his life, serving as a referee at events, and from 1959 as an honorary vice chairman of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations, and as a member of the Japanese Olympic Committee. In 1989, he was awarded the silver medal of the Olympic Order. Nishida died of heart failure in 1997 at the age of 87.[1]
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Further reading
- Cousineau Phil. The Olympic Odyssey: Rekindling the True Spirit of the Great Games. Quest Books (2003) Template:ISBN
- Mandell, Richard. The Nazi Olympics. University of Illinois Press (1987), Template:ISBN
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- 1910 births
- 1997 deaths
- Athletes from Wakayama Prefecture
- Japanese male pole vaulters
- Olympic male pole vaulters
- Olympic athletes for Japan
- Olympic silver medalists for Japan
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1951 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1951 Asian Games
- Japan Championships in Athletics winners
- Waseda University alumni
- 20th-century Japanese sportsmen
- Asian Games bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)