Yuka Suzuki Leaves Daiichi Seimei to Be part of Husband Akira Akasaki at Kraftia

The highest Japanese finisher within the 2024 Paris Olympics girls’s marathon at Sixth, Yuka Suzuki, 26, introduced this week on her social media that she has left the Daiichi Seimei company crew to switch to Kraftia. “I am actually grateful to everybody who’s helped me get the place I’m, and I do know it is a stage not everybody can get to,” she wrote.

Suzuki joined Daiichi Seimei in 2022 after graduating from Daito Bunka College. “The previous few years I got here to appreciate how unbelievable the fan assist is within the company leagues and on the Olympics,” she wrote. “My recollections of the MGC Race and Paris Olympics actually stand out. Even when the climate wasn’t nice or the race was distant there have been at all times individuals there to cheer for me. That is not one thing you need to take as a right, and I wish to take the time to place my due to all of you into phrases.”

Speaking about what comes subsequent, Suzuki wrote, “I had quite a lot of choices, and I wished to be in an surroundings the place I might expertise new coaching and training strategies to assist me attain my aim of competing globally alongside my husband. There have been different issues too, however I’ve made up my thoughts on this.”

In June Suzuki married Akira Akasaki, Sixth-placer within the males’s marathon in Paris. As a part of her announcement this week she stated she could be altering her identify to Yuka Akasaki after transferring, saying, “Numerous {couples} wrestle with being positioned elsewhere, however I’ve determined that that is the time to take this step to be collectively. I am totally dedicated to this route ahead, and I’ll make it the appropriate one.”