Emerick Ishikawa Explained

Emerick Ishikawa
Nationality:	American
Sport:	Weightlifting
Birth Date:	23 October 1920

Emerick K. Ishikawa (October 23, 1920  - November 26, 2006) was an American weightlifter from Hawaii. In 1944 he set a world record in the bantamweight class at the U.S. National Weightlifting Championships.^[1] He won Amateur Athletic Union championships as a bantamweight in 1944 and 1945, and as a featherweight in 1946 and 1947. In 1947 he also won a bronze medal in the featherweight class of the World Championships.^[2] He also competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.^[3]

In 1975 he was inducted into the (American) National Weightlifting Hall of Fame, and in 1999 he was inducted into the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame.^{[4] [5]}

He was Japanese-American, and was held for some time at a Japanese American internment camp at Tule Lake in California.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Community Works to Fill Wikipedia's Asian-American, Pacific Islander Gaps . Nbcnews.com . May 8, 2017. February 16, 2020.
2. Book: Jonathan H. X. Lee. Japanese Americans: The History and Culture of a People. November 10, 2017. ABC-CLIO. 978-1-4408-4190-3. 364–.
3. Emerick Ishikawa Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418121654/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/is/emerick-ishikawa-1.html . dead . April 18, 2020 . February 6, 2020.
4. Web site: Emerick K. Ishikawa . Ishikawa, Emerick K. | Hawai'i Sports Hall of Fame . Hawaiisportshalloffame.com . 2020-02-17.
5. Web site: Inductees by Class Year | Hawai'i Sports Hall of Fame . Hawaiisportshalloffame.com . 2020-02-17 . October 21, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191021073646/http://www.hawaiisportshalloffame.com/wp/inductees/inductees-by-class/ . dead .