[3] Suzuki made his official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he placed twenty-seventh in the Laser class with a net grade of 202, surpassing Seychelles' Allan Julie by a single mark.

[4] When South Korea hosted the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, Suzuki sailed vigorously to pick up a bronze medal in the Laser class with a satisfying score of 26, finishing behind the host nation's Kim Ho-kon by an eighteen-point deficit.

[2] At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Suzuki qualified for his second Japanese team in the Laser class by placing sixty-first and obtaining a berth from the World Championships in Bodrum, Turkey.

Sailing through the race series with a similar effort from the previous Olympics, Suzuki dropped his position to thirty-fifth with a net score of 281 in a fleet of forty-two sailors.

[5] Shortly after his second Olympics, Suzuki set a temporary retirement from his own category, but came back to the sailing scene in 2006 to team up with Daichi Wada in the Star class.