Seiko Hashimoto | |
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橋本 聖子 | |
 2019 | |
| Member of the House of Councillors | |
| Assumed office 21 July 1995 | |
| Constituency | Proportional |
| President of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games | |
| In office 18 February 2021 – 8 August 2021 | |
| IOC President | Thomas Bach |
| Preceded by | Yoshirō Mori |
| Succeeded by | Tony Estanguet |
| Chair of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games | |
| In office 18 February 2021 – 30 June 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Yoshirō Mori |
| Succeeded by | Position dissolved |
| Minister of State for Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games | |
| In office 11 September 2019 – 18 February 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Shinzo Abe Yoshihide Suga |
| Preceded by | Shun'ichi Suzuki |
| Succeeded by | Tamayo Marukawa |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 October 1964 Hayakita, Hokkaido, Japan |
| Political party | Liberal Democratic Party |
| Children | 3 (+ 3 stepchildren) |
| Alma mater | Komazawa University Tomakomai Senior High School |
Seiko Hashimoto (Japanese: 橋本 聖子, Hepburn: Hashimoto Seiko, born 5 October 1964)[1] is a Japanese politician, former speed skater and track cyclist. She has the most Olympic appearances of any Japanese athlete except Noriaki Kasai, representing her native country in four consecutive Winter Olympics from 1984 to 1994 and in three consecutive Summer Olympics from 1988 to 1996, making her a seven time Olympian.[2][3] On top of her Olympic career, she is the mother of six children while working in politics and other leadership positions.[2] She is currently a member of the House of Councillors from the Liberal Democratic Party, and served as the President of the Japan Skating Federation from 2006 to 2019.
She served on the Japanese Cabinet as Minister of State for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games from September 2019 until February 2021, when she became the President of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee. She is only the second female in Olympic history to become president of a game's organizing committee after Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, President of the Athens 2004 organizing committee.[citation needed]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
profilewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b "Seven-time Olympian, pioneer woman lawmaker Hashimoto appointed Olympics minister". Reuters. 11 September 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Seiko Hashimoto". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2013.