Asuka Cambridge

Asuka Cambridge
Asuka Cambridge in Rio de Janeiro 2016
Full name	Asuka Antonio Cambridge
nation	Japan
birthday	31st May 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Jamaica
size	179 cm
Weight	74 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Asian Games 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 4 × 100 m  World championships bronze London 2017 4 × 100 m  Asian Games gold Jakarta 2018 4 × 100 m  Junior World Championships bronze Barcelona 2012 4 × 100 m
last change: November 28, 2018

Asuka Antonio "Aska" Cambridge ( Japanese ケ ン ブ リ ッ ジ 飛鳥 ア ン ト ニ オ , Kemburijji Asuka Antonio ; born May 31, 1993 in Jamaica ) is a Japanese athlete who specializes in sprinting .

Career

Cambridge was born in Jamaica to a Jamaican and a Japanese mother. Two years after he was born, the family moved to Osaka , Japan. At first he tried his hand at football, only when he moved to Tokyo at the age of 14 did he specialize in athletics. Success quickly came about here, so that he competed for Japan at the Junior World Championships in Barcelona . Here he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 200 meter competition and was able to win the bronze medal with the Japanese sprint relay. The relay was able to set a new Asian junior record with the fastest time in the run-up in the competition (39.01 seconds).

In 2013 he won two gold medals at the East Asian Games in Tianjin . On the one hand in the 200 meter run and in the relay. With 38.44 seconds he achieved together with Ryōta Yamagata , Shōta Iizuka and Kazuma Ōseto a new East Asian player record in the men's relay, in which the old one improved by almost half a second. By winning the Japanese championships over 100 meters in 2016, he qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . There he achieved his greatest success to date in the men's relay. With 37.60 seconds in the final , he set a new Asian record together with Ryōta Yamagata, Shōta Iizuka and Yoshihide Kiryū . In the individual competition over 100 meters he was eliminated in the semifinals with a time of 10.17 seconds.

In April 2017, it ran for 10.05 seconds at a meeting in Florida . Due to the strong tail wind (-3.3), the time is not counted. In April 2015, also in Florida, he ran for 9.98 seconds with wind support. In June 2017, Cambridge improved its 100 meter best time to 10.08 seconds in Osaka. At this point it was the eighth fastest time ever run by a Japanese (now ninth fastest). It is noteworthy that this time was run with a headwind (−0.9 m / s). He qualified for the first time for the World Championships in London , where he was eliminated with 10.25 s in the semifinals and won the bronze medal with the relay. However, it was only used in advance. The following year he took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta , where he once again reached the semi-finals and won the gold medal in front of the teams from Indonesia and China with the Japanese relay in 38.16 s.

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 10.08 s (−0.9 m / s), June 23, 2017 in Osaka
• 200 meters: 20.62 s (+0.9 m / s), June 9, 2013 in Tokyo

Web links

Commons : Asuka Cambridge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Asuka Cambridge in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Asuka Cambridge in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nagatsuka, Kaz (June 4, 2016). Cambridge dreams of a great future . Japan Times.
2. ↑ 2012 World Junior Championships 4x100 Meters Relay - men . IAAF. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
3. ^ JAPAN National Junior Records . JAAF. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
4. ↑ Mulkeen, Jon (October 10, 2013). Chinese athletes dominate on home soil at East Asian Games . IAAF. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
5. ↑ Cambridge qualifies for Rio . The Japan News. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
6. ↑ Andrew Mckirdy: Japan makes history with silver (en-US) . In: The Japan Times Online , August 20, 2016. 
7. ↑ Cambridge ran wind-assisted 10.05 seconds