Naoki Tsukahara
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Nationality | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1985-05-10) 10 May 1985 (age 39) Okaya, Nagano | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 100 metres, 200 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University team | Tokai University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Fujitsu Track & Field Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2016[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal best(s) | 100m: 10.09 s (Hiroshima 2009) 200m: 20.35 s (Yokohama 2006) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Naoki Tsukahara (塚原 直貴, born 10 May 1985) is a Japanese track and field sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres.[2]
He was seventh in 100 m at the 58th National Sports Festival of Japan in 2003. After coming sixth over 200 m at the 2004 Japan Student Athletics Championships, he returned two years later to place runner-up in both short sprints. The 2006 Japan Championships in Athletics saw him with the 100 m title and take third in the 200 m.
Tsukahara represented Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing where he competed at the 100 metre sprint and placed second in his first heat after Churandy Martina in a time of 10.39 seconds. He qualified for the second round in which he improved his time to 10.23 seconds, finishing third behind Martina and Michael Frater. In the 100 m semi-finals Tsukahara achieved a time of 10.16 seconds, his best of the season, but finished in seventh place, failing to qualify for the final.[2]
Together with Shingo Suetsugu, Shinji Takahira and Nobuharu Asahara, Tsukahara also competed in the 4x100 metres relay final at the 2008 Summer Olympics. In their qualification heat, the team placed second behind Trinidad and Tobago, ahead of the teams from the Netherlands and Brazil. Their time of 38.52 s was the third fastest out of sixteen participating nations in the first round and they qualified for the final. There they sprinted to a time of 38.15 seconds, placing third after the Jamaican and Trinidad teams, winning the bronze medal.[2] However, in January 2017, Jamaica's gold medal was revoked after one of their athletes was found to have been doping, meaning that the Japanese team received silver. The achievement was a historic one in terms of Japanese olympians; it is the first track medal won by Japanese athletes in 80 years, as well as being the first medal won by male Japanese athletes.[3]
Tsukahara had a strong start to the 2009 season, improving his 200 m best in early May to 20.61 s. He also set a new 100 m personal best at the 2009 Osaka Grand Prix. He easily won with a time of 10.13 seconds but still felt that he was capable of running faster.[4]
National titles
- Japan Championships in Athletics
- 100 metres: 2006, 2007, 2008
International competitions
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Japan | |||||
2004 | World Junior Championships | Grosseto, Italy | 12th (sf) | 100m | 10.55 (wind: +0.3 m/s) |
3rd | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.43 (relay leg: 4th) | |||
2006 | World Cup | Athens, Greece | 3rd | 4 × 100 m relay | 38.51 (relay leg: 1st)[5] |
Asian Games | Doha, Qatar | 2nd | 100 m | 10.34 (wind: +0.3 m/s) | |
2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.21 (relay leg: 1st) | |||
2007 | World Championships | Osaka, Japan | 20th (qf) | 100 m | 10.31 (wind: -0.3 m/s) |
5th | 4 × 100 m relay | 38.03 (relay leg: 1st) AR | |||
2008 | Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 13th (sf) | 100 m | 10.16 (wind: +0.3 m/s) |
2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 38.15 (relay leg: 1st) | |||
2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 15th (sf) | 100 m | 10.25 (wind: -0.2 m/s) |
4th | 4 × 100 m relay | 38.30 (relay leg: 2nd) | |||
Asian Championships | Guangzhou, China | 2nd | 100 m | 10.32 (wind: -0.1 m/s) | |
1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.01 (relay leg: 2nd) | |||
2010 | Continental Cup | Split, Croatia | 2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.28 (relay leg: 2ndg)[6] |
2013 | Asian Championships | Pune, India | 7th | 100 m | 10.54 (wind: -0.3 m/s) |
Personal bests
Event | Best | Location | Date |
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100 metres | 10.09 s | Hiroshima, Japan | 27 June 2009 |
200 metres | 20.35 s | Yokohama, Japan | 21 May 2006 |
Records
- 4×100 m relay
- Former Asian record holder - 38.03 s (relay leg: 1st) (Osaka, 1 September 2007)[a]
- a with Shingo Suetsugu, Shinji Takahira, and Nobuharu Asahara
References
- ^ 塚原直貴が今季で引退 北京五輪男子400メートルリレーで「銅」. Sankei Shimbun (2016-11-10). Retrieved 2019-10-08.
- ^ a b c "Athlete biography: Naoki Tsukahara". Archived from the original on September 5, 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-27., beijing2008.cn, ret: August 26, 2008.
- ^ "Japan grabs historic bronze in men's relay". The Japan Times Online. 2008-08-24. ISSN 0447-5763. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
- ^ Nakamura, Ken (2009-05-09). ‘07 World champs Wariner, Clement and Thomas win again in Osaka – IAAF World Athletics Tour. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
- ^ Representing Asia
- ^ Representing Asia-Pacific
External links
- Naoki Tsukahara at World Athletics
- Naoki Tsukahara at Olympics.com
- Naoki Tsukahara at Olympedia
- Naoki Tsukahara at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Naoki Tsukahara at JAAF (in Japanese)
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- 1913–14 Kazue Akashi
- 1915 Yuzo Saito
- 1916 Shinpei Higashiguchi
- 1197 Sasago Tani
- 1918 Tsunemasa Matsuda
- 1919 Munetoshi Date
- 1920 Kunio Hiraoka
- 1921 Masayuki Takagi
- 1922–23 Sasago Tani
- 1924: Not held
- 1925 Sasago Tani
- 1926 Sadao Tajima
- 1927 Takeuchi Heizo
- 1928 Iwao Aizawa
- 1929 Sakae Yano
- 1930 Chūhei Nambu
- 1931–32 Takayoshi Yoshioka
- 1933 Chūhei Nambu
- 1934 Mutsuo Taniguchi
- 1935 Takayoshi Yoshioka
- 1936 Kanayuzawa
- 1937 Masao Yazawa
- 1938–40 Takayoshi Yoshioka
- 1941: Not held
- 1942 Toshihiro Osada
- 1943–45: Not held
- 1946 Nitawaki Isao
- 1947 Ichita Ikoma
- 1948 Nitawaki Isao
- 1949 Ichita Ikoma
- 1950 Tomio Hosoda
- 1951 Toshihiro Ohashi
- 1952 Herb McKenley (JAM)
- 1953 Ken Nakajima
- 1954–55 Kiyofuji Akira
- 1956–58 Kyohei Ushio
- 1959 Takeo Tamura
- 1960 Yojiro Muro
- 1961 Takeo Tamura
- 1962 Sergio Ottolina (ITA)
- 1963 Enrique Figuerola (CUB)
- 1964 Masaru Kamata
- 1965 Naoki Abe
- 1966 Toru Honda
- 1967 Junji Ishikawa
- 1968–71 Masahide Jinno
- 1972 Takao Ishizawa
- 1973–75 Masahide Jinno
- 1976 Tasaki Hiromichi
- 1977 Toshio Toyota
- 1978 Akira Harada
- 1979 Toshio Toyota
- 1980 Yasuhiro Harada
- 1981–82 Yoshihiro Shimizu
- 1983 Hirofumi Miyazaki
- 1984 Kaoru Matsubara
- 1985–86 Hirofumi Miyazaki
- 1987 Kaoru Matsubara
- 1988 Takahiko Kasahara
- 1989 Shinji Aoto
- 1990 Robson da Silva (BRA)
- 1991 Bruny Surin (CAN)
- 1992 Hisatsugu Suzuki
- 1993–94 Satoru Inoue
- 1995 Yoshitaka Ito
- 1996–97 Nobuharu Asahara
- 1998 Koji Ito
- 1999 Hiroyasu Tsuchie
- 2000–02 Nobuharu Asahara
- 2003–04 Shingo Suetsugu
- 2005 Shinya Saburi
- 2006–08 Naoki Tsukahara
- 2009–12 Masashi Eriguchi
- 2013 Ryota Yamagata
- 2014 Yoshihide Kiryū
- 2015 Kei Takase
- 2016 Asuka Cambridge
- 2017 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown
- 2018 Ryota Yamagata
- 2019 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown
- 2020 Yoshihide Kiryū
- 2021 Shuhei Tada
- 2022 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown
- 2023 Ryuichiro Sakai