Toshinari Takaoka
Toshinari Takaoka ( Japanese 高 岡 寿 成 Takaoka Toshinari ; born September 24, 1970 in Yamashiro, now Kizugawa ) is a Japanese long-distance runner who has specialized in the marathon in recent years . He is ranked 3rd in the all-time best list of Japanese marathon runners .
Life
His first successes were on the track. In 1994 he won gold in the 5000 and 10,000 meter races at the Asian Games , and in the following years he set the national records of 3000 m (7: 41.87), 5000 m (13: 13.40) and 10,000 m (27: 35.09). At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 he was fifteenth over 5000 m and seventh over 10,000 m.
In 2001 he finished third in the Fukuoka Marathon on his debut over this distance . He took the same place a year later at the Chicago Marathon and set the Asian record at 2:06:16, which was only beaten by five seconds in 2018 by his compatriot Yūta Shitara . He also took third place in the Fukuoka Marathon in 2003 and in the Chicago Marathon in 2004.
With a victory at the Tokyo International Men's Marathon , he qualified for the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , where he finished fourth.
At the Tokyo International Men's Marathon in 2006, he finished second.
Toshinari Takaoka has a competition weight of 64 kg with a height of 1.86 m.
Web links
- Toshinari Takaoka in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
Footnotes
- ↑ All-Time Lists on arrs.run ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2007 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.
- ↑ Chumba and Dibaba cruise to second Tokyo Marathon titles ( English ) IAAF. February 25, 2018. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
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SURNAME | Takaoka, Toshinari |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 高 岡 寿 成 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese long distance runner |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1970 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Yamashiro (now Kizugawa ) |