Marina Saitō

Marina Saitō
nation	Japan
birthday	15th October 1995 (age 25)
place of birth	Ibaraki Prefecture , Japan
size	164 cm
Weight	65 kg
job	Student
Career
discipline	Javelin
Best performance	62.37 m (August 25, 2017 in Taipei )
status	active
Medal table
Summer Universiade 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Universiade silver Taipei 2017 62.37 m
last change: April 22, 2019

Marina Saitō ( Japanese 斉 藤 真理 菜 , Saitō Marina ; born October 15, 1995 in Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a Japanese javelin thrower .

Athletic career

In 2017 she increased her best performance in the over 60 meters and thus qualified for the World Championships in London , where she was eliminated with 60.86 meters in the qualification . A few weeks later she won the silver medal behind the Polish Marcelina Witek at the World Student Games in Taipei with a new personal best of 62.37 m . In 2018 she took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta for the first time and came fourth there with a throw of 56.46 m. The following year she finished ninth at the Asian Championships in Doha with 52.40 m.

In 2018 Saito became the Japanese javelin throwing champion. She is a student teacher for physical education at Kokushikan University in Tokyo Prefecture .

Web links

• Marina Saitō in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Report: women's javelin qualification - IAAF World Championships London 2017 ( English ) IAAF. August 6, 2017. Retrieved October 19, 2017.