Chisato Fukushima

Chisato Fukushima (福島 千里, Fukushima Chisato, born June 27, 1988, in Makubetsu, Hokkaido) is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Japan.[1] She is the Japanese record holder in the women's 100 metres and 200 metres.

Chisato Fukushima
Personal information
NationalityJapanese
Born (1988-06-27) 27 June 1988
Makubetsu, Hokkaidō
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight48 kg (106 lb)
Sport
SportRunning
Event(s)100 metres, 200 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)100m: 11.21 200m: 22.88
Medal record
Women’s athletics
Representing  Japan
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place2010 Guangzhou100 m
Gold medal – first place2010 Guangzhou200 m
Silver medal – second place2014 Incheon100 m
Bronze medal – third place2010 Guangzhou4 x 100 m Relay
Asian Athletics Championships
Gold medal – first place2009 Guangzhou100 m
Gold medal – first place2009 Guangzhou4 x 100 m Relay
Gold medal – first place2011 Kobe200 m
Gold medal – first place2011 Kobe4 x 100 m Relay
Gold medal – first place2015 Wuhan100 m
Silver medal – second place2013 Pune100 m

Career

She began her career with appearances in the sprints at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics and the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics. Fukushima represented Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the 2012 Summer Games in London. She competed at the 100 m sprint and placed fifth in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time of 11.74 seconds.[1]

In 2009, she broke Sakie Nobuoka's 200 m Japanese national record of 23.33 seconds in Hiroshima, recording 23.14 seconds.[2] Soon after, she broke the national record in the 100 m for the first time, registering 11.28, then 11.24 seconds. She also broke the 200 metres Japanese record again with a run of 23.14 seconds. Fukushima improved upon this in June at the Japanese national championships, winning the race in 23 seconds flat. In addition, this achieved the A standard, and qualification, for the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.[3] However, at the championships she finished fourth in the 200 m heats and was eliminated. She managed to reach the quarter-finals of the 100 m however.

In November of the same year, she won her first Asian title in 100 m with 11.27 seconds into a negative wind of −1.0 m/s, at the 2009 Asian Championships in Athletics in Guangzhou, China. Three days later, she secured her second gold medal of the same meet together with her teammates in the women's 4 x 100 m relay final. She came third for the 2009 Japanese Athlete of the Year award by voting of an expert panel from Track and Field Magazine of Japan.

She began 2010 with a new record in the 100 m at the Mikio Oda Memorial International Amateur Athletic Game, recording a time of 11.21 seconds.[4] She won the 100 m at the Japanese championships, beating Momoko Takahashi in a time of 11.39 seconds, but finished as runner-up behind her rival in the 200 m race.[5] On November 22, she won her first gold medal in 100 m at the 2010 Asian Games, again in Guangzhou, thus ending Japan's 44-year-long medal drought in the sprint event.

At the 2011 Seiko Golden Grand Prix Fukushima set a new national relay record of 43.39 seconds alongside Saori Kitakaze, Momoko Takahashi and Kana Ichikawa.[6]

On June 26, 2011, Chisato Fukushima ran a 100m time of 11.16 with ＋3.4 m/s wind in Tottori city, Japan.

In 2015, she won a gold medal at the Asian Athletics Championships.[7]

Fukushima finally broke her own national record in the 200 meters when she clocked 22.88 seconds at the 100th Japan National Championships on June 26, 2016, in Nagoya, giving her a sixth straight title and earning her a berth at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Fukushima’s time at Paloma Mizuho Stadium, cut 0.01 second off the previous record she set back on May 3, 2010, and marked the first time she had broken 23 seconds since then.[8]

On January 20, 2017, Chisato Fukushima said in a statement, "I left Hokkaido College of High Technology and its Athletes Club today. And I decided to become the professional, starting from today".

On January 11, 2018, Chisato Fukushima said at a news conference at Seiko’s headquarters in Tokyo, “I am very pleased that I joined Seiko. I concentrate on practice in a new environment, first of all I would like to aim for updating my self-record Japanese records.".[9][10]

Competition record
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  Japan
2005 World Youth Championships Marrakech, Morocco 16th (sf) 100 m 11.95
22nd (sf) 200 m 24.87
2006 World Junior Championships Beijing, China 23rd (sf) 100m 12.11 (-1.8 m/s)
— 4×100m relay DQ
2008 Olympic Games Beijing, China 47th (h) 100 m 11.74
2009 World Championships Berlin, Germany 17th (qf) 100 m 11.43
26th (h) 200 m 23.40
14th (h) 4×100 m relay 44.24
Asian Championships Guangzhou, China 1st 100 m 11.27
1st 4×100 m relay 43.93
2010 Continental Cup Split, Croatia 6th 100 m 11.42[11]
Asian Games Guangzhou, China 1st 100 m 11.33
1st 200 m 23.62
3rd 4×100 m relay 44.41
2011 Asian Championships Kobe, Japan 1st 200 m 23.49
1st 4×100 m relay 44.05
World Championships Daegu, South Korea 22nd (sf) 100 m 11.59
20th (sf) 200 m 23.52
11th (h) 4×100 m relay 43.83
2012 World Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 9th (h) 60 m 7.29 (NR)
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom 32nd (h) 100 m 11.41
48 (h) 200 m 24.14
15th (h) 4×100 m relay 44.25
2013 Asian Championships Pune, India 2nd 100 m 11.53
4th 200 m 23.81
2nd 4×100 m relay 44.38
World Championships Moscow, Russia 37th (h) 200 m 23.85
2014 Asian Games Incheon, South Korea 2nd 100 m 11.49
3rd 200 m 23.45
3rd 4×100 m relay 44.05
2015 Asian Championships Wuhan, China 1st 100 m 11.23(+2.5m/s)
2nd 4x100 m relay 44.14
World Championships Beijing, China 23rd (sf) 100 m 11.32
34th (h) 200 m 23.30
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 38th (h) 200 m 23.21
2018 Asian Games Jakarta, Indonesia 20th (h) 100 m 11.99
2019 Asian Championships Doha, Qatar 16th (sf) 100 m 12.02

Personal bests
Event Time (sec) Venue Date
60 m (Indoor) 7.29 Istanbul, Turkey 10 March 2012
100 metres11.21Hiroshima, Japan29 April 2010
200 metres22.88Nagoya, Japan26 June 2016
  • All information taken from IAAF profile.

References
  1. "Athlete biography: Chisato Fukushima". Beijing2008.cn. Archived from the original on 2008-09-08. Retrieved August 27, 2008.
  2. Nakamura, Ken (2009-05-06). "National women's 200m record and world season 10,000m lead–Japanese competition round-up". IAAF. Archived from the original on 2009-05-09. Retrieved 2009-09-26.
  3. Nakamura, Ken (2009-06-29). "Sprinters excel at the Japanese Champs". IAAF. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
  4. Nakamura, Ken (2010-04-30). "Japanese 100m record for Fukushima in Hiroshima, world leading 27:15.73 for Thuo in Kobe". IAAF. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
  5. Nakamura, Ken (2010-06-07). "Murofushi and Murakami extended their winning streak at the Japanese National Championships". IAAF. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
  6. Nakamura, Ken (2011-05-08). "Pars defeats Murofushi, Japanese women's 4x100m Relay record falls in Kawasaki – IAAF World Challenge". IAAF. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
  7. "Asian Athletics Championship: Poovamma and Liksy claim silver". The Times of India. TNN. 2015-07-05. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
  8. Fukushima breaks 200-meter national record to complete sprint double
  9. "Sprinter Chisato Fukushima upbeat about training in new environment". japantimes.co.jp.
  10. "福島千里選手がセイコーに入社 japanese web site". japan.cnet.com.
  11. Representing Asia-Pacific
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