| Date of birth | 19 October 1999 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Uozu, Toyama, Japan [1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 166 cm (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Emii Tanaka (born 19 October 1999) is a Japanese rugby sevens player.
| Date of birth | 19 October 1999 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Uozu, Toyama, Japan [1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 166 cm (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Emii Tanaka (born 19 October 1999) is a Japanese rugby sevens player.
Tanaka debuted for Japan at the Japan leg of the 2016–17 Women's Sevens Series in Kitakyushu. [2] She represented Japan at the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens. [3] She later won a gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games. [2]
She received a silver medal at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. [2] She competed for Japan in her first Olympics at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [4] [5]
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