Akiko Adachi | |
Birth Date: | 10 September 1983 |
Birth Place: | Yame, Fukuoka,[1] Japan |
Height: | 160 cm[2] |
Weight: | 55 kg |
Disability Class: | B2 |
is a Japanese goalball player who won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[3] She scored the game-winning goal in the final against China.[4]
She was diagnosed with macular degeneration in her right eye when she was 14 years old. When she was 20, a visual condition also developed in her left eye, causing impairment.[1] She began playing goalball in 2006, at age 23.[2]