Yukifumi Murakami

Yukifumi Murakami
At the Japanese Championships in 2012
nation	Japan
birthday	23rd December 1979 (age 40)
place of birth	Ikina , Japan
size	186 cm
Weight	93 kg
Career
discipline	Javelin throw
Best performance	85.96 m
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Asian Games 1 × 2 × 0 × Asian Championships 2 × 1 × 1 × U20 Asian Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World championships bronze Berlin 2009 82.97 m  Asian Games gold Guangzhou 2010 83.15 m silver Doha 2006 78.15 m silver Busan 2002 78.77 m Asian Championships bronze Wuhan 2015 79.05 m gold Kobe 2011 83.27 m gold Guangzhou 2009 81.50 m silver Manila 2003 77.04 m  Junior World Championships bronze Annecy 1998 70.72 m
last change: September 24, 2018

Yukifumi Murakami ( Japanese 村上 幸 史 , Murakami Yukifumi ; born December 23, 1979 in Ikina (today: Kamijima ), Ochi-gun , Ehime Prefecture ) is a Japanese athlete who specializes in throwing a javelin .

Sporting successes

In the junior class Murakami won a bronze medal at the 1998 World Championships in Annecy, France .

He returned from the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, and from the 2006 Asian Games in Qatar as a silver medalist . Murakami also finished second at the 2003 Asian Championships in Manila . In 2006 Murakami was also the Japanese national javelin champion.

Murakami participated in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, but could not achieve medal rank.

He celebrated his greatest success to date in 2009 when he won the bronze medal in the javelin throw at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin with 82.97 m. In the final, he only had to admit defeat to Andreas Thorkildsen from Norway (89.59 m) and Cuban Guillermo Martínez (86.41 m). Murakami had already increased his best performance to 83.10 m in the qualification.

In 2009 Murakami won gold at the Asian Championships. At the 2011 World Championships he was seventh.

At a height of 1.86 m, his competition weight is 93 kg.

Personal best

• Javelin throw - 85.96 m, April 28, 2013, Hiroshima
• Discus throw - 51.72 m, September 28, 2001, Tokyo

Web links

Commons : Yukifumi Murakami  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 村上 幸 史 ／ 日本人 ３ 人 目 80 メ ー ト ル 超 え . In: nikkansports.com. Nikkan Sports , August 24, 2009; accessed August 27, 2009 (Japanese).