Ayako Kimura

Ayako Kimura
Ayako Kimura 2017
nation	Japan
birthday	11th June 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Hiroshima , Japan
size	168 cm
Weight	52 kg
Career
discipline	Hurdles sprint
Best performance	13.03 s
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Asian Championships 2 × 1 × 1 × World Relays 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Asian Games bronze Incheon 2014 100 m hurdles Asian Championships gold Pune 2013 100 m hurdles bronze Wuhan 2015 100 m hurdles silver Bhubaneswar 2017 100 m hurdles gold Doha 2019 100 m hurdles  IAAF World Relays silver Yokohama 2019 Hurdles
last change: November 16, 2019

Ayako Kimura ( Japanese 木村 文 子 , Kimura Ayako; born June 11, 1988 in Hiroshima ) is a Japanese hurdler who specializes in the 100 meter distance .

Athletic career

Ayako Kimura gained her first international experience at the Asian Championships 2011 in Kobe , where she finished fourth. In 2012 she qualified for the Olympic Games in London , from which she was eliminated in advance . In 2013 she won the Asian Championships in Pune in front of Kazakh Anastassija Soprunowa . In 2014 she finished sixth at the Athletics Continental Cup in Marrakech and won bronze at the Asian Games in Incheon .

She won bronze at the 2015 Asian Championships in Wuhan . Two years later she won the silver medal at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneshwar and qualified for the World Championships in London , where she reached the semi-finals . In 2018 she was sixth in the Continental Cup in Ostrava in 13.39 s and the following year she won the Asian Championships in Doha in 13.13 s . At the IAAF World Relays in Yokohama , together with Shunya Takayama , Masumi Aoki and Taiō Kanai, she won the silver medal in the first-ever hurdle pendulum relay . She also qualified for the World Championships in Doha, where she was eliminated with 13.19 s in the lead .

In 2011 and 2012, as well as in 2016 and 2017 and 2019, Kimura became the Japanese champion in the 100-meter hurdles.

Personal best

• 100 m hurdles: 13.03 s (−0.6 m / s), June 8, 2013 in Tokyo
  • 60 m hurdles (hall): 8.29 s, February 20, 2015 in Flagstaff

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bob Ramsak: On night of dramatic event debuts, US dominates - IAAF World Relays Yokohama 2019, day 1 ( English ) IAAF. May 11, 2019. Retrieved May 12, 2019.