Haruka Kitaguchi

Haruka Kitaguchi
nation	Japan
birthday	16th March 1998 (age 22)
place of birth	Asahikawa , Japan
Career
discipline	Javelin
Best performance	66.00 m (October 27, 2019 in Kitakyushu )
status	active
Medal table
Summer Universiade 0 × 1 × 0 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Universiade silver Naples 2019 60.15 m  Youth World Championships gold Cali 2015 60.35 m
last change: November 23, 2019

Haruka Kitaguchi ( Japanese 北 口 榛 花 , Kitaguchi Haruka ; born March 16, 1998 in Asahikawa ) is a Japanese javelin thrower .

Athletic career

Haruka Kitaguchi gained her first international experience at international championships in 2015 at the Youth World Championships in Cali , where she won the gold medal with a new high of 60.38 m. A year later she qualified for the Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz , Poland , where she finished eighth in the final with 52.15 m. In 2017 she took part in the Summer Universiade in Taipei , where she was tenth with a width of 56.30 m. Two years later she won the silver medal behind the Lithuanian Liveta Jasiūnaitė at the Student World Games in Naples with 60.15 m . Then she took part in the World Championships in Doha and was eliminated there with 60.84 m in qualification .

Kitaguchi became the Japanese javelin throwing champion in 2019.

Web links

Commons : Haruka Kitaguchi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Haruka Kitaguchi in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Result of the javelin final at the U20 World Championships 2016