Takashi Etō

Takashi Etō
nation	Japan
birthday	5th February 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Suzuka , Japan
size	183 cm
Weight	67 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	2.30 m
status	active
Medal table
Asian Championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Asian Championships gold Wuhan 2015 2.24 m silver Doha 2019 2.29 m
last change: November 7, 2019

Takashi Etō ( Japanese 衛 藤 昂 ; * February 5, 1991 in Suzuka ) is a Japanese high jumper .

Athletic career

Takashi Etō gained his first international experience at the 2010 Junior World Championships in Moncton , Canada , where he was eliminated with 2.05 m in qualification. The following year he was at the Asian Championships in Kobe with 2.24 m skipped fourth and two years later at the Asian Championships in Pune with 2.18 m seventh. In 2014 he took part in the Asian Games in Incheon , South Korea for the first time and finished eleventh with 2.15 m. In 2015 he won the Asian Championships in Wuhan with 2.24 m and thus qualified for the World Championships in Beijing , where he was eliminated with 2.22 m in qualification . The following year he took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he also did not qualify for the final with 2.17 m .

In 2017 he again took part in the World Championships in London , but did not reach the final with 2.22 m . At his second Asian Games in Jakarta in 2018 , he finished sixth with a jump over 2.24 m. The following year he won the silver medal behind Syrian Majd Eddin Ghazal at the Asian Championships in Doha with 2.29 m . He also qualified for the World Championships there in October, where he was eliminated with 2.17 m in qualification .

In 2016, 2017 and 2018 Etō became Japanese champion in high jump.

Personal best

• High jump: 2.30 m, May 21, 2017 in Kawasaki
  • High jump (hall): 2.23 m, January 26, 2019 in Hustopeče

Web links

• Takashi Eto in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Takashi Etō in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )