Haruka Kitaguchi
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Born | Asahikawa, Japan | 16 March 1998
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) |
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Sport | Athletics |
Event | Javelin throw |
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Highest world ranking | 1st (2023)[1] |
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Haruka Kitaguchi (北口 榛花, Kitaguchi Haruka, born 16 March 1998) is a Japanese female javelin thrower. She is the reigning Olympic and world champion in women's javelin throw.
Life and career
[edit]Kitaguchi won an individual gold medal at the Youth World Championships[2] and has set Japanese national records in the discipline, throwing 66.00 m at the Honjo Athletic Stadium in Kitakyushu in 2019 and 67.38 m at the Memorial Van Damme event in Brussels in 2023. 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.[3][4]
In 2023, in her best achievement to that point, she won the gold medal in javelin throw, in her 6th and final throw at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
Kitaguchi continued her dominance in the discipline when she claimed gold in the javelin event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
In addition to English, Kitaguchi understands and speaks Czech. She lives and trains with Czech trainer David Sekerák in Domažlice, Czech Republic. In January 2024, she received a commemorative medal of the town of Domažlice.[5]
Competition record
[edit]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 |
2024 | Summer Olympics | Paris, France | 1st | Javelin throw | 65.80 m |
References
[edit]- ^ "World Rankings | Women's Javelin Throw".
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Olympijskou šampionku Kitagučiovou přivítali v Domažlicích". Sport.cz (in Czech). 12 August 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
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- 1998 births
- Living people
- 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
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic female javelin throwers
- 21st-century Japanese women
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for Japan
- Diamond League winners
- Sportspeople from Asahikawa
- Athletes from Hokkaido
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