Haruka Kitaguchi
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Born | Asahikawa, Hokkaido | 16 March 1998|||||||||||||||||
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Event | Javelin throw | |||||||||||||||||
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Haruka Kitaguchi (北口 榛花, Kitaguchi Haruka, born 16 March 1998) is a Japanese female javelin thrower, who won an individual gold medal at the Youth World Championships.[1] She also has the Japanese national record for the same event, as she threw 66.00 m at the Honjo Athletic Stadium in Kitakyushu in 2019. At the 2022 World Athletics Championships she won a bronze medal, which made her the first Japanese woman to win a medal in any throwing event at a World Championships or Olympics.[2][3]
In 2023, in her best achievement, she won the gold medal in javelin throw, in her 6th and final throw at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
Competition record
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2019 | World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 13th (q) | Javelin throw | 60.84 m |
2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 12th | Javelin throw | 55.42 m |
2022 | World Championships | Eugene, United States | 3rd | Javelin throw | 63.27 m |
2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 1st | Javelin throw | 66.73 m |
References
- ^ "IAAF World Youth Championships Cali 2015 - Statistics Handbook" (PDF). iaaf.org. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ "Haruka Kitaguchi wins historic javelin bronze for Japan at worlds". The Japan Times. 23 July 2022.
- ^ "Australian Barber retains javelin world title". ESPN.com. 23 July 2022.
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- 1998 births
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- Japanese female javelin throwers
- Japan Championships in Athletics winners
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- World Athletics Championships winners
- Olympic athletes for Japan
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic female javelin throwers
- 21st-century Japanese women
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Universiade silver medalists for Japan
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