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- Title
Soichi Sakamoto and the Three Year Swim Club "The World's Greatest Swimming Coach".
- Authors
NAKAMURA, KELLI Y.
- Abstract
The article discusses the training of Japanese Americans as swimmers for the Olympic Games during the 1930s by Hawaiian science teacher turned coach Soichi Sakamoto, focusing on the success of the training techniques developed by Sakamoto. Other topics include life for Japanese Americans on Hawaiian plantations, racial and class segregation in swimming as a sport, and the efforts of Sakamoto to get his swimmers in the 1940 Olympic Games.
- Subjects
HAWAII; SAKAMOTO, Soichi; SWIMMING coaching; SWIMMING training; JAPANESE American athletes; JAPANESE Americans; PLANTATIONS; DISCRIMINATION in sports; HISTORY of the Olympic Games; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Hawaiian Journal of History, 2014, Vol 48, p1
- ISSN
0440-5145
- Publication type
Article