Yoshiko Fujinaga

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Yoshiko Fujinaga ( Japanese 藤 永 佳 子 , Fujinaga Yoshiko ; born August 15, 1981 in Saza , Kitamatsuura-gun , Nagasaki Prefecture ) is a Japanese long-distance runner .

Life

In 1999 she won bronze in the junior women race of the World Cross Country Championships , but retired from the World Athletics Championships in Seville over 5000 m in the preliminary run. The following year she became a national champion over the same distance and enrolled at Tsukuba University . In 2001 she won bronze over 5000 and silver over 10,000 m at the Universiade .

In 2009 she was first third in the Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon and won the Nagoya Marathon on her debut full distance a month later . At the marathon of the World Athletics Championships in Berlin , she came in 14th place and won silver with the team.

Yoshiko Fujinaga is 1.70 m tall and weighs 52 kg. She has been with the Shiseido company team since 2004 .

Personal bests

  • 5000 m: 15: 22.68 min, May 8, 1999, Osaka
  • 10,000 m: 31: 47.82 min, April 22, 2001, Kobe
  • Half marathon : 1:09:19 h, December 16, 2001, Kobe
  • Marathon: 2:28:13 h, March 8, 2009, Nagoya

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ IAAF: Fujinaga wins Nagoya Women's Marathon in 2:28:13 ( Memento of March 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). March 8, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Fujinaga, Yoshiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 藤 永, 佳 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Saza , Kitamatsuura-gun , Nagasaki Prefecture