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Nationality | Japanese | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 23 August 1955 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Tweed Heads BC | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kenichi Emura (江村健一, Emura Ken'ichi, born 1955) is a Japanese international lawn bowler.[1]
Emura a computer consultant by trade won the national singles title in 2013 and represented Japan in the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch winning a bronze medal in the triples with Hisaharu Satoh and Kenta Hasebe. The bronze medal was the first ever bowls medal won by the nation.[2]
He won a triples silver medal at the 2015 Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in Christchurch.[3]
In 2023, he was selected as part of the team to represent Japan at the 2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship.[4] He participated in the men's triples and the men's fours events.[5][6] In the triples his team reached the quarter final before losing to England.