Ann

Yoshida

Personal

Favorite Food after a Workout: Coconut water...Hobbies: Surfing, painting, traveling, learning five essential phrases in various languages, and playing the ukulele and piano.

Career Highlights

• 2012 IVF Va’a World Sprint (Calgary, Canada) Women’s V-1 A 200m Sprint, Bronze
• First adaptive paddler on TeamUSA Canoe/Kayak from Hawaii (where outrigger canoeing has significant roots and developed into a competitive sport for adaptive paddlers)

Paralympic Experience

• 1-time Paralympian;
• Paralympic Games Rio de Janeiro 2016, 10th (Kayak single KL1 200m - Women)

World Championship Experience

• Most recent: 2016 – gold (Canoe single VL1 200m - Women), 13th (Kayak single KL1 200m - Women)
• Years of participation: Canoe single VL1 200m - Women 2015, 2016; Kayak single KL1 200m - Women 2016; V1 200m A - Women 2013, 2014
• Medals: 3 (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
• Gold – 2016 (Canoe single VL1 200m - Women)
• Silver – 2015 (Canoe single VL1 200m - Women)
• Bronze – 2013 (V1 200m A - Women)