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Yuko Gordon

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Yuko Gordon
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Hong Kong
Asian Championships
Silver medal – second place 1985 Jakarta Marathon

Yuko Gordon (née Hasegawa; Japanese: ユーコ・ゴードン; born 23 February 1951) is a Japan-born Hong Kong long-distance runner who competed mainly in the marathon. She represented her country in that event at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1983 World Championships in Athletics.[1] She holds a personal best of 2:38:32 hours, set in 1987.[2]

Competing in the 1980s, she was the first international standard marathon runner from Hong Kong and was twice winner of the Macau Marathon, Hong Kong Marathon, and Bangkok Marathon.[3] She was originally from Japan but opted to represent Hong Kong, (her adopted nation by marriage) and enjoyed international competition for the first time in her thirties.[4]

She was a silver medallist in the marathon at the 1985 Asian Athletics Championships, finishing behind India's Asha Agarwal.[5]

She continued running in her later years as a masters athlete and won the women's under-45 category for the 5000 metres at the 1997 World Masters Athletics Championships.[6]

On the 29th of September 2019, Yuko broke the world record marathon time in her single age category (68 year old) in the Berlin marathon with a time of 3:19:37.[7]

International competitions

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Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
1983 World Championships Helsinki, Finland 35th Marathon 2:48:51
1984 Olympic Games Los Angeles, United States 34th Marathon 2:46:12
1985 Asian Championships Jakarta, Indonesia 2nd Marathon 2:54:16
IAAF World Cup Canberra, Australia 10,000 m DNF
World Marathon Cup Hiroshima, Japan 28th Marathon 2:45:29
1988 World Cross Country Championships Auckland, New Zealand 92nd Senior race 21:15
21st Team 436 pts
IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships Adelaide, Australia 64th 15 km 57:11

Road race wins

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Yuko Gordon Archived 2011-08-20 at the Wayback Machine. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2017-03-11.
  2. ^ Yuko Gordon Archived 2017-03-12 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2017-03-11.
  3. ^ Yuko Gordon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2017-03-11.
  4. ^ S. F. Lam, Julian W. Chang The quest for gold: fifty years of amateur sports in Hong Kong, 1947-1997 Hong Kong University Press, 2006
  5. ^ Asian Championships Archived 2018-09-23 at the Wayback Machine. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-03-11.
  6. ^ World Masters Championships (Women) Archived 2017-04-06 at the Wayback Machine. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-03-11.
  7. ^ "Single Age Records Marathon". www.arrs.run. Archived from the original on 2020-02-20. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
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