Akane Watanabe

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Watanabe Akane athletics
nation JapanJapan Japan
birthday 13th August 1991 (age 29)
place of birth Japan
size 173 cm
Weight 73 kg
Career
discipline Hammer throw
Best performance 66.79 m (May 3, 2016 in Fukuroi )
status active
Medal table
Asian Championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
Asian Championships
bronze Wuhan 2015 59.39 m
bronze Doha 2019 63.54 m
last change: July 1st, 2019

Watanabe Akane ( Japanese 渡 邉 あ か ね ; * August 13, 1991 ) is a Japanese hammer thrower .

Athletic career

Watanabe Akane gained her first international experience at the 2015 Asian Championships in Wuhan , where she won the bronze medal with 59.39 m. Two years later she was fourth at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar with 59.39 m, as well as at the Asian Games 2018 in Jakarta with 62.45 m. At the Asian Championships in Doha , she won the bronze medal behind the two Chinese Wang Zheng and Luo Na with a width of 63.54 m .

In 2019 Watanabe became the Japanese hammer throw champion. She is a graduate of Kyushu Kyoritsu University in Fukuoka . In 2014 she received the Kitakyushu Citizen Award.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Athlete profile at the Asian Games 2018
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Watanabe is the family name, Akane the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Watanabe, Akane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Akane, Watanabe (full name); 渡 邉 あ か ね (ja-Jpan)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese hammer thrower
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1991