Kiyou Shimizu

In 2014, Shimizu represented Japan at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, and she won the gold medal in the women's kata event. A month later, she became world champion in this event at the 2014 World Karate Championships held in Bremen, Germany.^[5][6] In 2015, she won the gold medal in this event at the Asian Karate Championships held in Yokohama, Japan.^[7]

At the 2016 World Karate Championships in Linz, Austria, Shimizu repeated her 2014 success by winning the gold medal in the women's kata event for the second time.^[5][8] In 2017, she won the gold medal in the women's kata event at the World Games held in Wrocław, Poland.^[9][10][11] In the final, she defeated Sandra Sánchez of Spain.^[10]

In 2018, Shimizu won a medal in three major tournaments. At the 2018 Asian Karate Championships held in Amman, Jordan, she won the gold medal in the women's kata event.^[12] She also won the gold medal in the women's kata event at the Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia.^[3][13][14] Her success continued at the World Karate Championships held in Madrid, Spain where she won the silver medal in the women's individual kata event.^[11][15] In the final, she lost against Sandra Sánchez of Spain.^[11][15][16]

At the 2019 Asian Karate Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Shimizu won the gold medal in the women's individual kata event.^[17][18]

Shimizu represented Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in karate.^[19][20] She reached the final in the women's kata event, but lost the gold medal bout to Spain's Sandra Sánchez Jamie.^[21]

In 2023, Shimizu won the silver medal in her event at the Asian Karate Championships held in Malacca, Malaysia.^[22][23] She won the gold medal in the women's kata event at the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China.

She studied at Kansai University.^[24]