Yuki Sato

Yuki Sato is a Japanese sepak takraw player, born on 16 December 1988, who competes as an attacker. He was born in Noda, Chiba, attended Kashiwa Municipal Kashiwa High School and began the sport at Asia University, then joined the national team; he works for Hanshin Shuhan. He made his Asian Games debut at Jakarta and Palembang in 2018, winning silver in the men's quadrant and bronze in the team doubles, and took quadrant bronze again at the Hangzhou Games. In July 2025 he was in the Japanese quadrant team that won the King's Cup World Championships in Thailand, Japan's first men's gold there. At the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya he won bronze in the men's team regu and gold in the men's quadrant, beating Indonesia in the final for Japan's first Asian Games gold in the sport.