Yukari Sahaku

Yukari Sahaku, 2008

Yukari Sahaku ( Japanese 佐伯 由香 里 , Sahaku Yukari ; born November 5, 1988 in Chiba Prefecture ) is a Japanese long-distance runner .

Life

On her debut over the marathon distance, she won the Hokkaidō marathon in 2008 in 2:31:50 h. The following year she came second in the Tokyo Marathon in 2:28:55 h and qualified as national runner-up over 10,000 m for the World Athletics Championships in Berlin . Her appearance there was disappointing in terms of sport, because she crossed the finish line 20th and last, but the 1.42 m tall and 30 kg athlete won the hearts of the audience when she was smooched and lifted by the mascot Berlino .

Yukari Sahaku starts for the team of the slot machine manufacturer Aruze and is trained by Yoshio Koide, who already looked after Naoko Takahashi .

Personal bests

• 3000 m : 9: 19.60 min, September 22, 2007, Gifu
• 10,000 m: 32: 1.80 min, June 25, 2009, Hiroshima
• Half marathon : 1:09:36 h, July 5, 2009, Sapporo
• Marathon: 2:28:55 h, March 22, 2009, Tokyo

Web links

• Yukari Sahaku in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
• Athlete portrait and short interview on the Aruze website (Japanese)

Footnotes

1. ^ IAAF: Defending champion Gitahi well beaten by Takamizawa; Sahaku wins women's race in the Hokkaido Marathon ( memorial from September 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). August 31, 2008
2. ↑ Japan Running News: High School Teacher and Teenager Win Hokkaido Marathon . September 1, 2008
3. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Athlete of the day (2) - A heart for bears ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . August 16, 2009
4. ↑ Japan Running News: Sahaku in Wonderland . 17th August 2009