Kenji Fujimitsu
Japanese sprinter (born 1986)
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Nationality | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 1 May 1986 (1986-05) (age 38) Saitama, Japan[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Nihon University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 200 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal bests | 100 m: 10.23 (Tottori 2017) 200 m: 20.13 (Lucerne 2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kenji Fujimitsu (藤光 謙司, Fujimitsu Kenji, born 1 May 1986) is a Japanese sprinter who specialises in the 200 metres. He is a one-time Asian champion and two-time national champion in the event and has a personal best of 20.13 seconds. He is also a bronze medalist in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2017 World Championships.[2] He holds the Asian best in the rarely-contested 300 metres.[3]
Personal bests
Event | Time (s) | Competition | Venue | Date | Notes |
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100 m | 10.23 (+1.9 m/s) | Fuse Sprint | Tottori, Japan | 4 June 2017 | |
10.14 (+3.2 m/s) | KBC Night of Athletics | Heusden-Zolder, Belgium | 18 July 2015 | Wind-assisted | |
200 m | 20.13 (+0.6 m/s) | Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern | Lucerne, Switzerland | 14 July 2015 | |
300 m | 32.21 | Izumo Meet | Izumo, Japan | 12 April 2015 | Current AB |
Achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Japan and Asia-Pacific (Continental Cup only) | |||||
2003 | World Youth Championships | Sherbrooke, Canada | 10th (sf) | 200 m | 21.64 |
3rd | Medley relay | 1:53.11 | |||
2007 | Asian Championships | Amman, Jordan | 1st | 200 m | 20.85 |
2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 20th (qf) | 200 m | 20.97 |
4th | 4 × 100 m relay | 38.30 | |||
Asian Championships | Guangzhou, China | 1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.01 | |
1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:04.13 | |||
East Asian Games | Hong Kong, China | 1st | 200 m | 20.91 | |
2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.40 | |||
2010 | Continental Cup | Split, Croatia | 5th | 200 m | 20.80 |
2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.28 | |||
Asian Games | Guangzhou, China | 2nd | 200 m | 20.74 | |
10th (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | 47.14 | |||
2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:02.43 | |||
2013 | World Championships | Moscow, Russia | 6th | 4 × 100 m relay | 38.39 |
2014 | World Relays | Nassau, Bahamas | 9th (h) | 4 × 200 m relay | 1:23.87 |
Asian Games | Incheon, South Korea | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:01.88 | |
2015 | World Relays | Nassau, Bahamas | 3rd | 4 × 100 m relay | 38.20 |
World Championships | Beijing, China | 15th (sf) | 200 m | 20.34 | |
10th (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | 38.60 | |||
2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 64th (h) | 200 m | 20.86 |
2017 | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 3rd | 4 × 100 m relay | 38.04 |
2019 | World Relays | Yokohama, Japan | 5th | 4 × 200 m relay | 1:22.67 |
National titles
- Japanese Championships
- 200 m: 2010, 2015
See also
- List of World Athletics Championships medalists (men)
- List of Asian Games medalists in athletics
- List of 200 metres national champions (men)
References
- ^ "さいたま市ゆかりのアスリートインタビュー". Saitama (in Japanese). 21 April 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
- ^ a b "Profile". JAAF (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 October 2020.
- ^ "ASIAN Continental Records (as at 31 Dec 2019)" (PDF). Asian Athletics Association. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
External links
- Kenji Fujimitsu at World Athletics
- Kenji Fujimitsu at Diamond League
- Kenji Fujimitsu at the Japan Association of Athletics Federations (in Japanese)
- Kenji Fujimitsu at Olympics.com
- Kenji Fujimitsu at Olympedia
- Kenji Fujimitsu on X
- Kenji Fujimitsu on Instagram
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Asian Athletics Champions in men's 200 metres
- 1973–1975: Anat Ratanapol (THA)
- 1979: Yasuhiro Harada (JPN)
- 1981: Toshio Toyota (JPN)
- 1983: Sumet Promna (THA)
- 1985: Jang Jae-keun (KOR)
- 1987: Talal Mansour (QAT)
- 1989: Yoshiyuki Okuyama (JPN)
- 1991: Zhao Cunlin (CHN)
- 1993: Huang Danwei (CHN)
- 1995: Abdulaziz Mattar (BRN)
- 1998: Koji Ito (JPN)
- 2000: Masahiko Fukunaga (JPN)
- 2002: Gennadiy Chernovol (KAZ)
- 2003: Fawzi Al-Shammari (KUW)
- 2005: Hamed Al-Bishi (KSA)
- 2007: Kenji Fujimitsu (JPN)
- 2009: Omar Juma Al-Salfa (OMN)
- 2011: Femi Ogunode (QAT)
- 2013: Xie Zhenye (CHN)
- 2015: Femi Ogunode (QAT)
- 2017: Yang Chun-han (TPE)
- 2019: Xie Zhenye (CHN)
- 2023: Towa Uzawa (JPN)
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