Kaori Yoshida
Kaori Yoshida 
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| nation |
 Japan
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| birthday | 4th August 1981 (age 39) |
| place of birth | Sakado , Japan |
| Career | |
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| Best performance | 1:10:18 h (half marathon) 2:28:24 h (marathon) |
| last change: November 6, 2018 | |
Kaori Yoshida ( Japanese 吉田 香 織 , Yoshida Kaori ; born August 4, 1981 in Sakado ) is a Japanese marathon runner .
Career
In 2001 Kaori Yoshida won the Chiba Half Marathon, in 2005 she was fourth at the Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon and in 2006 she won the Hokkaidō Marathon .
In 2007 she left the Shiseido company team to join the newly founded Second Wind AC of her trainer Manabu Kawagoe. In December she was fourth in the Honolulu Marathon , and the following year she was twelfth in the Nagoya Marathon , third in the Hokkaidō Marathon, won the Casablanca Marathon and was second in Honolulu.
In March 2009 she switched from Second Wind AC to Amino Vital AC. An eleventh place in Hokkaidō was followed by a fourth in Honolulu.
In 2010 she won the Gold Coast Marathon and finished eighth in the Chicago Marathon for the first time under two and a half hours.
After finishing fourth in Honolulu at the Hawaii Marathon in December 2012, the runner tested positive for EPO and was banned for one year. At the appeal of the Japanese anti-doping agency JADA, the national arbitration tribunal of Japan extended the ban in August 2013 to two years.
In May 2016, Kaori Yoshida ran the Wings for Life World Run in Takashima with 65.71 km, the best distance ever achieved by a woman.
Personal bests
- 5000 m : 15: 55.85 min, May 14, 2000, Shiroi
- 10,000 m : 32: 01.23 min, September 29, 2001, Kanazawa
- Half marathon : 1:10:18 h, January 21, 2001, Chiba
- Marathon: 2:28:24 h, March 12, 2017, Nagoya
Web links
- Kaori Yoshida in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF: Yoshida and Watanabe win Hokkaido Marathon ( Memento from June 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). August 27, 2006.
- ↑ Japan Running News: Kaori Yoshida Quits Second Wind AC . March 15, 2009.
- ↑ Japan Running News: Kaori Yoshida Sub-2:30 PB at Chicago Marathon . October 11, 2010.
- ^ Marathon runner Yoshida gets one-year doping ban (May 24, 2013)
- ↑ Athletics: Marathoner Yoshida to get longer ban (August 20, 2013)
- ^ "Wings for Life Run": Calcaterra ran 88.44 kilometers (May 8, 2016).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Yoshida, Kaori |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 吉田 香 織 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese marathon runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sakado |