Mahau Suguimati

Mahau Suguimati

Personal information
Full name	Mahau Camargo Suguimati
Nationality	Brazil
Born	(1984-11-13) 13 November 1984 São Miguel do Araguaia, Goiás, Brazil
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Weight	77 kg (170 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	400 metres hurdles
Club	Atlético Clube Paranavaí (BRA)
Achievements and titles
Personal best	400 m hurdles: 48.67 s (2009)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing Brazil South American Championships 2013 Cartagena 400 m hurdles Ibero-American Championships 2008 Iquique 400 m hurdles

Mahau Camargo Suguimati (born November 13, 1984 in São Miguel do Araguaia, Goiás) is a Brazilian track hurdler of Japanese ancestry. Since the age of eight, Suguimati had lived and studied for sixteen years in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Suguimati also attended schools around the prefecture, where he discovered his natural ability and talent of running and hurdling, under his personal coach and trainer Atsushi Hishinuma. He made his international debut, and represented his birth nation Brazil at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, where he finished seventh in the final of the 400 m hurdles, with his personal best time of 49.63 seconds.

Suguimati qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after claiming the gold medal from the Brazil Trophy Box in Sao Paulo, with an A-standard time of 49.15 seconds. He ran in the first heat of the men's 400 m hurdles, against six other athletes, including Bershawn Jackson of the United States, who eventually won the bronze medal in the final. He finished the race in third place by a quarter second margin (0.25) behind Jackson, and twenty-one hundredths of a second behind South Africa's Pieter de Villiers, with a time of 49.45 seconds. Suguimati qualified directly for the next round, as he secured the last mandatory place from the first heat. In the semi-final round, Suguimati, however, felt short in his bid to advance into the final round, when he placed seventh in the second heat, outside his personal best of 50.16 seconds.

At the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, Suguimati missed out of the medal podium, when he finished fifth in the final of the men's 400 m hurdles, by two hundredths of a second faster from his first personal best, with a time of 49.61 seconds.

Personal bests

• 200 m: 21.62 (wind: +1.3 m/s) – Maebashi, 27 June 2004
• 400 m: 46.21 – Gifu, 8 October 2012
• 400 m hurdles: 48.67 – Niigata, 3 October 2009

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing the Brazil
2007	Pan American Games	Río de Janeiro, Brazil	7th	400 m hurdles	49.63
2008	Ibero-American Championships	Iquique, Chile	1st	400 m hurdles	50.07
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	15th (sf)	400 m hurdles	50.16
2009	South American Championships	Lima, Perú	4th	400 m hurdles	51.50
	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	24th (h)	400 m hurdles	51.05
2010	Ibero-American Championships	San Fernando, Spain	3rd	400 m hurdles	49.87
2011	South American Championships	Buenos Aires, Argentina	2nd	400 m hurdles	51.11
	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	23rd (sf)	400 m hurdles	50.89
	Pan American Games	Guadalajara, México	5th	400 m hurdles	49.61
2013	South American Championships	Cartagena, Colombia	1st	400 m hurdles	49.86
	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	20th (sf)	400 m hurdles	50.27
2014	South American Games	Santiago, Chile	3rd	400 m hurdles	50.47
	Ibero-American Championships	São Paulo, Brazil	3rd	400 m hurdles	49.99

External links

• Mahau Suguimati at World Athletics
• Profile – UOL Esporte Template:Pt icon
• NBC Olympics Profile
• Sports reference biography
• Tilastopaja biography