Chisato Fukushima (福島 千里, Fukushima Chisato, born 27 June 1988, in Makubetsu, Hokkaido) is a Japanese track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Japan.[1] She is the Japanese record holder in the women's 100 metres and 200 metres.
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| Born | 27 June 1988 Makubetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 48 kg (106 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 100 metres, 200 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 100m: 11.21 200m: 22.88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editShe began her career with appearances in the sprints at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics and the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics. Fukushima represented Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the 2012 Summer Games in London. She competed at the 100 m sprint and placed fifth in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time of 11.74 seconds.[1]
In 2009, she broke Sakie Nobuoka's 200 m Japanese national record of 23.33 seconds in Hiroshima, recording 23.14 seconds.[2] Soon after, she broke the national record in the 100 m for the first time, registering 11.28, then 11.24 seconds. She also broke the 200 metres Japanese record again with a run of 23.14 seconds. Fukushima improved upon this in June at the Japanese national championships, winning the race in 23 seconds flat. In addition, this achieved the A standard, and qualification, for the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.[3] However, at the championships she finished fourth in the 200 m heats and was eliminated. She managed to reach the quarter-finals of the 100 m however.
In November of the same year, she won her first Asian title in 100 m with 11.27 seconds into a negative wind of −1.0 m/s, at the 2009 Asian Championships in Athletics in Guangzhou, China. Three days later, she secured her second gold medal of the same meet together with her teammates in the women's 4 x 100 m relay final. She came third for the 2009 Japanese Athlete of the Year award by voting of an expert panel from Track and Field Magazine of Japan.
She began 2010 with a new record in the 100 m at the Mikio Oda Memorial International Amateur Athletic Game, recording a time of 11.21 seconds.[4] She won the 100 m at the Japanese championships, beating Momoko Takahashi in a time of 11.39 seconds, but finished as runner-up behind her rival in the 200 m race.[5] On 22 November, she won her first gold medal in 100 m at the 2010 Asian Games, again in Guangzhou, thus ending Japan's 44-year-long medal drought in the sprint event.
At the 2011 Seiko Golden Grand Prix Fukushima set a new national relay record of 43.39 seconds alongside Saori Kitakaze, Momoko Takahashi and Kana Ichikawa.[6]
On 26 June 2011, Chisato Fukushima ran a 100m time of 11.16 with ＋3.4 m/s wind in Tottori city, Japan.
In 2015, she won a gold medal at the Asian Athletics Championships.[7]
Fukushima finally broke her own national record in the 200 meters when she clocked 22.88 seconds at the 100th Japan National Championships on 26 June 2016, in Nagoya, giving her a sixth straight title and earning her a berth at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Fukushima's time at Paloma Mizuho Stadium, cut 0.01 second off the previous record she set back on 3 May 2010, and marked the first time she had broken 23 seconds since then.[8]
On 20 January 2017, Chisato Fukushima said in a statement, "I left Hokkaido College of High Technology and its Athletes Club today. And I decided to become the professional, starting from today".
On 11 January 2018, Chisato Fukushima said at a news conference at Seiko's headquarters in Tokyo, "I am very pleased that I joined Seiko. I concentrate on practice in a new environment, first of all I would like to aim for updating my self-record Japanese records.".[9][10]
Competition record
edit| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing  Japan
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| 2005 | World Youth Championships | Marrakech, Morocco | 16th (sf) | 100 m | 11.95 |
| 22nd (sf) | 200 m | 24.87 | |||
| 2006 | World Junior Championships | Beijing, China | 23rd (sf) | 100m | 12.11 (-1.8 m/s) |
| — | 4×100m relay | DQ | |||
| 2008 | Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 47th (h) | 100 m | 11.74 |
| 2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 17th (qf) | 100 m | 11.43 |
| 26th (h) | 200 m | 23.40 | |||
| 14th (h) | 4×100 m relay | 44.24 | |||
| Asian Championships | Guangzhou, China | 1st | 100 m | 11.27 | |
| 1st | 4×100 m relay | 43.93 | |||
| 2010 | Continental Cup | Split, Croatia | 6th | 100 m | 11.42[11] |
| Asian Games | Guangzhou, China | 1st | 100 m | 11.33 | |
| 1st | 200 m | 23.62 | |||
| 3rd | 4×100 m relay | 44.41 | |||
| 2011 | Asian Championships | Kobe, Japan | 1st | 200 m | 23.49 |
| 1st | 4×100 m relay | 44.05 | |||
| World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 22nd (sf) | 100 m | 11.59 | |
| 20th (sf) | 200 m | 23.52 | |||
| 11th (h) | 4×100 m relay | 43.83 | |||
| 2012 | World Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 9th (h) | 60 m | 7.29 (NR) |
| Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 32nd (h) | 100 m | 11.41 | |
| 48 (h) | 200 m | 24.14 | |||
| 15th (h) | 4×100 m relay | 44.25 | |||
| 2013 | Asian Championships | Pune, India | 2nd | 100 m | 11.53 |
| 4th | 200 m | 23.81 | |||
| 2nd | 4×100 m relay | 44.38 | |||
| World Championships | Moscow, Russia | 37th (h) | 200 m | 23.85 | |
| 2014 | Asian Games | Incheon, South Korea | 2nd | 100 m | 11.49 |
| 3rd | 200 m | 23.45 | |||
| 3rd | 4×100 m relay | 44.05 | |||
| 2015 | Asian Championships | Wuhan, China | 1st | 100 m | 11.23(+2.5m/s) |
| 2nd | 4x100 m relay | 44.14 | |||
| World Championships | Beijing, China | 23rd (sf) | 100 m | 11.32 | |
| 34th (h) | 200 m | 23.30 | |||
| 2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 38th (h) | 200 m | 23.21 |
| 2018 | Asian Games | Jakarta, Indonesia | 20th (h) | 100 m | 11.99 |
| 2019 | Asian Championships | Doha, Qatar | 16th (sf) | 100 m | 12.02 |
Personal bests
edit| Event | Time (sec) | Venue | Date |
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| 60 m (Indoor) | 7.29 | Istanbul, Turkey | 10 March 2012 |
| 100 metres | 11.21 | Hiroshima, Japan | 29 April 2010 |
| 200 metres | 22.88 | Nagoya, Japan | 26 June 2016 |
- All information taken from IAAF profile.
References
edit- ^ a b "Athlete biography: Chisato Fukushima". Beijing2008.cn. Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. Archived from the original on 8 September 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2008.
- ^ Nakamura, Ken (6 May 2009). "National women's 200m record and world season 10,000m lead–Japanese competition round-up". IAAF. Archived from the original on 9 May 2009. Retrieved 26 September 2009.
- ^ Nakamura, Ken (29 June 2009). "Sprinters excel at the Japanese Champs". IAAF. Archived from the original on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ Nakamura, Ken (30 April 2010). "Japanese 100m record for Fukushima in Hiroshima, world leading 27:15.73 for Thuo in Kobe". IAAF. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ Nakamura, Ken (7 June 2010). "Murofushi and Murakami extended their winning streak at the Japanese National Championships". IAAF. Archived from the original on 6 May 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ Nakamura, Ken (8 May 2011). "Pars defeats Murofushi, Japanese women's 4x100m Relay record falls in Kawasaki – IAAF World Challenge". IAAF. Archived from the original on 6 May 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ "Asian Athletics Championship: Poovamma and Liksy claim silver". The Times of India. TNN. 5 July 2015. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ "Fukushima breaks 200-meter national record to complete sprint double". Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2017-02-20.
- ^ "Sprinter Chisato Fukushima upbeat about training in new environment". japantimes.co.jp. Archived from the original on 2021-01-16. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
- ^ "福島千里選手がセイコーに入社 japanese web site". japan.cnet.com. Archived from the original on 2021-01-20. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
- ^ Representing Asia-Pacific
External links
edit- Chisato Fukushima at World Athletics
- Chisato Fukushima at JAAF (in Japanese)
- Chisato Fukushima at Olympedia
- Chisato Fukushima at Olympics.com
- Chisato Fukushima – Rio 2016 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)
- Chisato Fukushima – London 2012 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)
- Chisato Fukushima – Beijing 2008 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)
