Chisato Fukushima

Chisato Fukushima

Personal information
Nationality	Japan
Born	27 June 1988 (1988-06-27) (age 23) Makubetsu, Hokkaidō
Height	1.65 metres (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	48 kilograms (110 lb)
Sport
Sport	Running
Event(s)	100 metres, 200 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100m: 11.21 200m: 22.89
Medal record Women’s athletics Competitor for  Japan Asian Games Gold 2010 Guangzhou 100 m Gold 2010 Guangzhou 200 m Bronze 2010 Guangzhou 4 x 100 m Relay Asian Athletics Championships Gold 2009 Guangzhou 100 m Gold 2009 Guangzhou 4 x 100 m Relay

Chisato Fukushima (福島 千里,born June 27, 1988 in 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.

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. 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, Takahashi and Kana Ichikawa.^[6]

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event
2005	World Youth Championships	Marrakech, Morocco	4th (semis)	100 m
			7th (semis)	200 m
2006	World Junior Championships	Beijing, China	7th (semis)	100 m
2008	Summer Olympics	Beijing, China	5th (heats)	100 m
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	7th (quarter-finals)	100 m
			4th (heats)	200 m
			4th (heats)	4×100 m relay
	Asian Athletics Championships	Guangzhou, China	1st	100 m
			1st	4×100 m relay
2010	IAAF_Continental_Cup	Split, Croatia	6th	100 m
	Asian Games	Guangzhou, China	1st	100 m
			1st	200 m

Personal bests

Event	Time (sec)	Venue	Date
100 metres	11.16(+3.4)	Tottori, Japan	26 June 2011
200 metres	22.89	Shizuoka, Japan	3 May 2010

• All information taken from IAAF profile.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Athlete biography: Chisato Fukushima, beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug 27, 2008
2. ^ Nakamura, Ken (2009-05-06).National women's 200m record and world season 10,000m lead–Japanese competition round-up. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-09-26.
3. ^ Nakamura, Ken (2009-06-29). Sprinters excel at the Japanese Champs. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-06-02.
4. ^ Nakamura, Ken (2010-04-30). Japanese 100m record for Fukushima in Hiroshima, world leading 27:15.73 for Thuo in Kobe. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-04-39.
5. ^ Nakamura, Ken (2010-06-07). Murofushi and Murakami extended their winning streak at the Japanese National Championships . IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-06-07.
6. ^ Nakamura, Ken (2011-05-08). Pars defeats Murofushi, Japanese women's 4x100m Relay record falls in Kawasaki – IAAF World Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-13.

External links

• IAAF profile for Chisato Fukushima
• Japan Association of Athletics Federations profile for 福島千里 Chisato Fukushima

Persondata
Name	Fukushima, Chisato
Alternative names
Short description	Japanese Olympic sprinter
Date of birth	1988-06-27
Place of birth	Makubetsu, Hokkaidō
Date of death
Place of death