Japanese sailor Yumiko Shige was born on August 4, 1965, and died on December 9, 2018, in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, where he was born.
Yumiko Shige won a silver medal in the 470 class at the 1996 Summer Olympics with Alicia Kinoshita.
She instructed other sailors in a yacht harbor local to her residence.
She died of breast cancer at 53 years old.