Keisuke Ushiro

Keisuke Ushiro
nation	Japan
birthday	24th July 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Ebetsu , Japan
size	196 cm
Weight	95 kg
Career
discipline	Decathlon
Best performance	8308 points
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 2 × 0 × 0 × Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Indoor Asian Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Asian Games gold Incheon 2014 8088 points gold Jakarta 2018 7878 points Asian Championships gold Doha 2019 7872 points Indoor Asian Championships silver Hangzhou 2012 5590 points
last change: November 10, 2019

Keisuke Ushiro (born July 24, 1986 in Ebetsu ) is a Japanese athlete who specializes in the decathlon .

Athletic career

Keisuke Ushiro played his first international competition at the Asian Games in Guangzhou , where he finished fourth with 7702 points. The following year he took part in the World Championships in Daegu and finished the competition with 7639 points in 20th place. In 2012 he won the silver medal behind Kazakhs Dmitri Karpov at the Asian Indoor Championships in Hangzhou with 5590 points . He also qualified for the Olympic Games in London , reaching 7842 points Place 20 . He finished the 2013 World Championships in Moscow with 7751 points in 22nd place. In 2014, he won the Asian Games in Incheon with 8088 points. In 2015 he again took part in the World Championships in Beijing and finished them again in 20th place with 7532 points , as well as at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with 7952 points .

At the World Championships in London in 2017, he was also ranked 20th with 7498 points . In his third participation in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta , he won again with 7878 points ahead of Sutthisak Singkhon from Thailand . He also won the Asian Championships in Doha the following year with 7872 points and thus received a bye for the World Championships , which will also take place in Qatar in October. At the World Championships, he finished 16th with 7545 points.

In 2010 and 2014 as well as in 2018 and 2019, Ushiro was Japanese champion in the decathlon and in 2018 in the discus throw.

Personal best

• Decathlon: 8308 points: June 1, 2014 in Nagano ( Japanese record )
  • Heptathlon (hall): 5590 points: February 19, 2012 in Hangzhou
• Discus throw: 50.17 m, June 1, 2014 in Nagano

Web links

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