Kiyomi Niwata

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Kiyomi Niwata in Madrid, 2010
Kiyomi Niwata in Madrid, 2010
Personal information
Date of birth 10th December 1970 (age 49)
place of birth Ushiku
size 166 cm
Weight 53 kg
societies
successes
2003 State champion triathlon
2008 Asian champion aquathlon
2011 Asian triathlon champion
status
inactive

Kiyomi Niwata ( Japanese 庭 田 清 美 , Niwata Kiyomi ; born December 10, 1970 in Ushiku , Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a former Japanese triathlete . She is a three-time Olympic participant (2000, 2004 and 2008), national triathlon champion (2003), aquathlon Asian champion and triathlon Oceania champion 2009 as well as one of the most experienced triathlon pioneers.

Career

1994 started her first triathlon.

Professional triathlete since 1997

In July 1997 she won her first medal in the ITU Triathlon World Cup in Gamagori with second place in the elite class.

Kiyomi Niwata and the German Anja Dittmer are the only triathletes who have participated in the first three Olympic triathlon competitions. Niwata was 14th in Sydney and Athens and ninth in Beijing in 2008.

In the 14 years from 1997 to 2010 Niwata took part in 99 ITU competitions, holding a world record and achieving 39 top ten places.

In 2003, she won the Japanese Triathlon Championship. In 2005 she was fourth at the World Aquathlon Championship and in 2008 she was able to win the Asian Championship.

Olympic Games 2008

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in August 2008, she finished ninth.

In 2010, at 39, she was still one of the world's best. She won her home world cup in Ishigaki and competed in the world championship series with Ai Ueda as the Japanese elite triathlete.

In 2011 she became the Asian triathlon champion. Niwata's coach was the American Col Stewart. She lives in Chiba , near Tokyo. Kiyomi Niwata has not appeared internationally since 2016.

Sporting successes

Triathlon sprint and short distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
July 10, 2016 3 NTT ASTC Sprint Triathlon Asian Cup JapanJapan Osaka 01:04:44
Oct 11, 2015 15th JPN Triathlon National Championships JapanJapan Daiba 02:05:41
Oct 26, 2014 5 JPN Triathlon National Championships JapanJapan Daiba 02:00:37
0Apr 7, 2012 4th ASTC Asian Championship Triathlon China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Tateyama 01:49:33
23 Sep 2011 1 ASTC Asian Championship Triathlon China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yilan 02:11:48
Apr 25, 2010 1 ITU Triathlon World Cup JapanJapan Ishigaki 02:07:21
01st Mar 2009 1 OTU Triathlon Oceania Championships AustraliaAustralia Gold coast 02:00:45 Winner next to the Australian Brad Kahlefeldt in the men
Aug 18, 2008 9 Olympic Games 2008 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Beijing 02:00:50
0May 2, 2008 2 ASTC Asian Championship Triathlon China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Guangzhou
0June 1, 2007 4th ASTC Asian Championship Triathlon Korea SouthSouth Korea Tongyeong 02:05:42
0July 2, 2005 11 ASTC Asian Championship Triathlon SingaporeSingapore Singapore
Aug 25, 2004 14th 2004 Olympic Games GreeceGreece Athens 02:07:42
  2003 1 JPN Triathlon National Championships JapanJapan
  2000 14th Olympic Games 2000 AustraliaAustralia Sydney 02:03:53 as the best Japanese woman
July 11, 1999 4th ASTC Asian Championship Triathlon Korea SouthSouth Korea Sokcho 02:08:13
0July 6, 1997 2 ITU Triathlon World Cup JapanJapan Gamagori 02:04:07
Triathlon middle distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0June 8, 2014 2 Ironman 70.3 Cairns AustraliaAustralia Cairns 04:28:48
Sep 15 2013 2 Ironman 70.3 Sunshine Coast AustraliaAustralia Sunshine Coast 04:24:17 Second in the first edition in Queensland
0June 9, 2013 3 Ironman 70.3 Cairns AustraliaAustralia Cairns
Aquathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Nov 16, 2008 1 ASTC Aquathlon Asian Championships China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Hong Kong 00:31:49
08 Sep 2005 4th ITU Aquathlon World Championship JapanJapan Gamagōri 00:30:29 Aquathlon World Championship (2.5 km run, 1 km swim and 2.5 km run)

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Head Coach” to the sports of swimming, cycling, triathlon ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.colstewart-tricoach.com
  2. ^ Profile and results of Kiyomi Niwata in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on May 20, 2014 (English).
  3. Jumped knot: Jacobs wins Hawaii form test (September 16, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Niwata, Kiyomi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 庭 田 清 美 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Ushiku