Ai Ueda

Japan 0 Ai Ueda
Ai Ueda at the Triathlon World Cup in Kitzbühel, 2010
Personal information
Date of birth	26th October 1983 (age 36)
place of birth	Kyoto, Japan
Nickname	Iron girl
size	155 cm
Weight	44 kg
societies
successes
2005	Asian champion triathlon U23
2013	World champion duathlon
2013, 2015	2 × Japanese triathlon champion
2014	Japanese champion duathlon
2015, 2016	2 × Asian triathlon champion
2016	3rd place world championship triathlon short distance
2018	ITU Vice World Champion Duathlon
status
active

Ai Ueda ( Japanese 上田藍 , Ueda Ai ; born October 26, 1983 in Kyoto , Kyoto Prefecture ) is a Japanese duathlete and triathlete . She is a three-time Olympian (2008, 2012, 2016), Duathlon World Champion (2013) and Vice-World Champion Duathlon (2018).

Career

Ai Ueda's parents and brother are kimono artists - she moved to Chiba in 2002 immediately after graduating from school to devote herself entirely to triathlon. Ai Ueda has been a professional triathlete since 2003. In 2005 she became the Asian triathlon champion in the U23 age group.

2008 Summer Olympics

She represented Japan at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and finished 17th. Four years later, she also started in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she finished 39th.

In 2013 she became Duathlon World Champion in Colombia on the short distance (10 km run, 40 km bike ride and 5 km run). She also became national triathlon champion and was able to repeat this success in October 2015. In 2014 she became national champion in the short distance duathlon. In 2015 she became the Asian triathlon champion and in April 2016 she was able to repeat this success.

2016 Summer Olympics

Ai Ueda was also able to qualify for a place at the Summer Olympics for the third time in 2016. It started on August 20th in Rio de Janeiro, where it finished 39th for Japan.
In September, with her fifth place in the last race of the season, she finished third in the annual ranking of the world championship on the short distance triathlon.

In 2017, she finished 15th in the ITU World Championship racing series.

In July 2018, Ai Ueda became ITU Vice World Champion Duathlon.
In the 2018 World Championship racing series, she finished 29th as the third best Japanese woman. In October Ueda was elected to the ITU's athletes' committee for two years .

Sporting successes

Triathlon sprint and short distance

Date / year	rank	competition	venue	time	comment
78165093475 ♠0Nov 3, 2019	1	ITU Triathlon World Cup	Peru Lima	00:59:12
78164256250 ♠Oct. 26, 2019	1	ITU Triathlon World Cup	Japan Miyazaki	01:59:32
78151325775 ♠June 15, 2019	1	ITU Triathlon World Cup	Kazakhstan Nur-Sultan	01:56:38
78138953450 ♠Feb 10, 2019	1	ITU Triathlon World Cup	South Africa Cape Town	00:57:23
78125650875 ♠Oct. 27, 2018	1	ITU Triathlon World Cup	Korea South Tongyeong	00:59:39
78119511225 ♠25 Aug 2018	14th	ITU World Championship Series 2018	Canada Montreal	02:03:32
78067324200 ♠08 Apr 2017	8th	ITU World Championship Series 2017	Australia Gold coast	00:58:31
78063882275 ♠03rd Mar 2017	5	ITU World Championship Series 2017	United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi	02:04:52	first race of the 2017 World Championship series
78061649675 ♠Feb 11, 2017	3	ITU Triathlon World Cup	South Africa Cape Town	01:00:04
78048440125 ♠Oct 29, 2016	1	ITU Triathlon World Cup	Japan Miyazaki	02:01:02
78047788950 ♠Oct 22, 2016	2	ITU Triathlon World Cup	Korea South Tongyeong	00:59:54
78044440050 ♠Sep 18 2016	5	ITU World Championship Series 2016	Mexico Cozumel	01:59:39	with the fastest running fuel at the "Grand Final" - third place in the World Triathlon Short Distance Championship
78041649300 ♠Aug 20, 2016	39	2016 Summer Olympics	Brazil Rio de Janeiro	02:03:37
78038300400 ♠July 16, 2016	7th	ITU World Championship Series 2016	Germany Hamburg	00:58:02
78032160750 ♠May 14, 2016	3	ITU World Championship Series 2016	Japan Yokohama	01:57:25
78030579325 ♠Apr 29, 2016	1	ASTC Triathlon Asian Championships	Japan Hatsukaichi	02:04:04	Asian triathlon champion
78008067275 ♠Oct 11, 2015	1	JPN Triathlon National Championships	Japan Daiba	01:59:43
78007416100 ♠0Oct 4, 2015	1	ITU Triathlon World Cup	Mexico Cozumel	00:59:09
77996160075 ♠June 11, 2015	1	ASTC Triathlon Asian Championships	Chile New Taipei	02:09:23	Asian triathlon champion
77990206475 ♠Apr 11, 2015	19th	ITU World Championship Series 2015	Australia Gold coast	02:00:45
77988904125 ♠29 Mar 2015	11	ITU World Championship Series 2015	New Zealand Auckland	02:13:21
77970764250 ♠Oct 26, 2014	2	JPN Triathlon National Championships	Japan Tokyo	01:59:15
77967694425 ♠25 Sep 2014	1	Asian Games	Korea South Incheon	02:01:47	Winner next to Yuichi Hosoda (defending champion) in the men
77955043025 ♠17th May 2014	2	ITU World Championship Series 2014	Japan Yokohama	01:59:14
77918577225 ♠0June 9, 2013	1	Ironman 70.3 Tokoname	Japan Tokoname
77902949025 ♠0Jan. 1, 2013	1	JPN Triathlon National Championships	Japan	01:59:25
77885367300 ♠0Aug 4, 2012	39	2012 Summer Olympics	United Kingdom London
77797365650 ♠Apr 18, 2010	2	ITU Triathlon World Cup	Mexico Monterrey		Second behind the Canadian Paula Findlay
77762760350 ♠May 30, 2009	10	ITU World Championship Series 2009	Spain Madrid
77731876050 ♠Aug 18, 2008	17th	2008 Summer Olympics	China People's Republic Beijing	02:02:19	1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running
77611408675 ♠0July 3, 2005	1	ASTC Triathlon Asian Championships	Singapore Singapore	02:09:15	Asian champion triathlon U23
77571314900 ♠June 20, 2004	2	ITU Triathlon Asian Cup	Japan Amakusa Islands	02:05:46	Second behind Megumi Shigaki
77549174950 ♠0Dec 6, 2003	13	ITU Triathlon World Championship U23	New Zealand Queenstown	02:17:49	Triathlon World Championship U23
77507778825 ♠0Nov 9, 2002	33	ITU Triathlon World Championship Junior Women	Mexico Cancun	01:06:48	Junior World Championship

Duathlon

Date / year	rank	competition	venue	time	comment
78114766950 ♠06th July 2018	2	ITU Duathlon World Championships	Denmark Fyn	01:49:38	ITU Vice World Champion Duathlon; behind the Austrian Sandrina Illes
77972159625 ♠0Nov 9, 2014	1	JPN Duathlon National Championships	Japan Fukushima	02:15:53
77923228475 ♠July 27, 2013	1	ITU Duathlon World Championships	Colombia Cali	01:57:59	ITU Duathlon World Champion (short distance)

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Ai Ueda's official website in Japanese and English
Profile for Ai Ueda at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 23, 2014
Profile and results of Ai Ueda in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on January 5, 2020 (English).
Ai Ueda in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ WORLD TRIATHLON SERIES: FLORA DUFFY ENTTHRONT GWEN JOGGENDEN, ANJA KNAPP 20. (September 18, 2016)
↑ [1] (October 30, 2018)
↑ Ueda, Hosoda claim triathlon titles (September 25, 2014)
↑ Jorgensen retains Yokohama triathlon title (May 17, 2014)

personal data
SURNAME	Ueda, Ai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	上田藍 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese triathlete, duathlete and duathlon world champion (2013)
DATE OF BIRTH	October 26, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kyoto , Kyoto Prefecture

[1] WORLD TRIATHLON SERIES: FLORA DUFFY ENTTHRONT GWEN JOGGENDEN, ANJA KNAPP 20. (September 18, 2016)

[2] [1] (October 30, 2018)

[3] Ueda, Hosoda claim triathlon titles (September 25, 2014)

[4] Jorgensen retains Yokohama triathlon title (May 17, 2014)