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| Birth name | Felix T. Sasamoto Jr. [1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Northern Mariana Islands | |||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Suzette | |||||||||||||||||
| Children | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Spearfishing | |||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Individual, Team | |||||||||||||||||
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Felix T. Sasamoto Jr. is a Northern Mariana Islands spearfisher.
At the 2006 Micronesian Games, he won gold medals in the individual and team events. [2] Sasamoto along with Morito Asai and others established the Marianas Apnea Spearfishing Club following the wins. [3] Sasamoto came first in a trial competition conducted by the club to determine the Northern Mariana Islands' spearfishers for the 2010 Micronesian Games but finished sixth in the event. [4] [5]
Sasamoto's father Felix Aguon Sasamoto was the son of a Chamorro woman and a Japanese agriculturist stationed on the islands prior to the Battle of Saipan. [6] His father died in 2023. [1]
Sasamoto and his wife Suzette have a child and grandchildren. [1]
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