Yuki Ebihara

Yuki Ebihara
Yuki Ebihara in Moscow 2013
nation	Japan
birthday	28th October 1985 (age 34)
place of birth	Kaminokawa , Japan
size	164 cm
Weight	66 kg
Career
discipline	Javelin throw
Best performance	63.80 m (May 10, 2015 in Kawasaki )
society	Suzuki Hamamatsu Athlete Club
status	not active
Medal table
Asian Games 1 × 0 × 1 × U20 Asian Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Asian Games bronze Doha 2006 57.47 m gold Guangzhou 2010 61.56 m Junior Asian Championships bronze Ipoh 2004 52.07 m
last change: January 31, 2020

Yuki Ebihara ( Japanese 海 老 原 有 希 , Ebihara Yuki; born October 28, 1985 in Kaminokawa ) is a Japanese athlete who specializes in throwing the javelin .

Athletic career

Yuki Ebihara played her first international competition in 2004 at the Junior Asian Championships in Ipoh , where she won the bronze medal with a width of 52.07 m. This qualified her for the Junior World Championships in Grosseto , where she came in fifth with 54.44 m. Two years later she took part in the Asian Games in Doha for the first time , where she won the bronze medal behind Buoban Pamang from Thailand and Ma Ning from China with a throw at 57.47 m . In 2007 she was eighth at the Summer Universiade in Bangkok with 55.31 m and in 2009 she took part in the World Championships in Berlin , where she was eliminated from the qualification with a width of 54.81 m. Then she reached fourth place at the Asian Championships in Guangzhou with 53.18 m. The following year she won the Asian Games there with 61.56 m, setting a new player record.

In 2011 she reached the finals at the World Championships in Daegu and took eighth place there with a throw of 59.08 m. In 2012 she qualified for the first time for the Olympic Games in London , where 59.25 m were not enough for a final . Even at the World Championships in Moscow the following year, she did not make it to the final with 59.80 m. At the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon she was fourth with 58.72 m and in 2015 she was eliminated from the qualification at the World Championships in Beijing with 60.30 m . In 2016 she again took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , but did not make it to the final with 57.68 m , as was the case at the World Championships in London the following year with 57.51 m.

In 2006, from 2008 to 2010, 2012 and 2013, as well as 2015 and 2017, Ebihara became the Japanese javelin thrower.

Web links

Commons : Yuki Ebihara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Yuki Ebihara in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Yuki Ebihara in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )