Masaki Ejima

Masaki Ejima
Masaki Ejima (l.) In Bhubaneswar 2017
nation	Japan
birthday	6th March 1999 (age 21)
place of birth	Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan
size	190 cm
Weight	79 kg
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	5.71 m
status	active
Medal table
Asian Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Asian Championships silver Bhubaneswar 2017 5.65 m  Junior World Championships bronze Tampere 2018 5.55 m
last change: November 7, 2019

Masaki Ejima (born March 6, 1999 in Kanagawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese pole vaulter .

Athletic career

Masaki Ejima gained his first international experience at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Cali , where he finished sixth with 5.00 m, as well as at the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz the following year with 5.35 m. In 2017 he won the silver medal behind the Chinese Ding Bangchao at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar with a new personal best of 5.65 m . He then finished fourth at the Summer Universiade in Taipei with 5.40 m. In 2018 he won the bronze medal at the U20 World Championships in Tampere, Finland, by jumping 5.55 m. The following year he finished sixth at the Asian Championships in Doha with 5.51 m. He then took part again in the Student World Games in Naples and this time finished seventh with 5.21 m. At the end of September he retired at the World Championships in Doha with 5.45 m in qualification .

In 2019, Ejima became the Japanese pole vault champion.

Personal best

• Pole vault: 5.71 m, August 18, 2019 in Kisarazu
  • Pole vault (hall): 5.50 m, January 14, 2017 in Pajulahti

Web links

Commons : Masaki Ejima  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Masaki Ejima in the database of World Athletics (English)