Yoshio Okita
Japanese hammer and discus thrower
Okita at the 1932 Olympics | |
Personal information | |
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Born | March 28, 1903 Hiroshima, Japan |
Died | April 28, 2001 (aged 98) |
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Country | Japan |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | Discus throw, hammer throw |
Club | Waseda Athletic Club |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | DT – 41.22 m (1927) HT – 46.51 m (1929)[1] |
Yoshio Okita (Japanese: 沖田 芳夫, March 28, 1903 – April 28, 2001) was a Japanese track and field athlete who won a gold medal in the discus throw at the 1927 Far Eastern Championship Games. He competed in the hammer and discus throw at the 1928 Summer Olympics and placed 15th and 30th, respectively.[1] He also attended the 1932 and 1936 Olympics as a field coach for the Japanese athletics team.[2] In 1993 Okita took part in the World Masters Athletics Championships. Being the sole hammer throw competitor in the over 90 years age group he won the event with a result of 12.1 m.[3]
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Japan Championships in Athletics men's discus throw champions
- 1915: Shosuke Nakamura
- 1916: Giichi Ishii
- 1917: Kenkichi Saito
- 1918: Yoshio Mihashi
- 1919–20: Tadaomi Nimura
- 1921: Goro Osawa
- 1922: Kizo Ito
- 1923: Yoshio Okita
- 1924: Not held
- 1925–26: Yoshio Okita
- 1927–28: Ichiro Furuyama
- 1929–30: Yoshio Okita
- 1931: Itabashi Masajiro
- 1932: Tomoo Kamijo
- 1933: Kiyoji Fujita
- 1934: Eiichiro Matsuno
- 1935: Kikumoto Kosaku
- 1936: Honji Sei
- 1937–40: Eihito Miyagi
- 1941: Not held
- 1942: Park Chankyu
- 1943–45: Not held
- 1946: Masaichi Tomitsuka
- 1947: Fumio Kamamoto
- 1948–49: Sekime Kenji
- 1950: Norimi Sato
- 1951: Teruo Tanaka
- 1952: Nishida Chika
- 1953: Motoyasu Nagano
- 1954: R. Overhouse (USA)
- 1955: Hitoshi Goto
- 1956: Tabata Gaiji
- 1957–61: Shohei Kaneko
- 1962: Shozo Yanagawa
- 1963: Jens Reimers (FRG)
- 1964: Shozo Yanagawa
- 1965: Kazuo Watanabe
- 1966: Yoshihisa Ishida
- 1967: Toji Hayashi
- 1968: Masahiko Kaji
- 1969–70: Toji Hayashi
- 1971: Glenn Passey (USA)
- 1972: Toji Hayashi
- 1973–74: Kiyotaka Kawasaki
- 1975: Kato Masatoshi
- 1976–79: Kiyotaka Kawasaki
- 1980–81: North Michio
- 1982–83: Masahiko Kataoka
- 1984: Yuji Yamazaki
- 1985–86: Hirotaka Maeda
- 1987: Yuji Yamazaki
- 1988: Hiroshi Ikeda
- 1989–90: Yuji Yamazaki
- 1991: Adewale Olukoju (NGR)
- 1992: Takataka Nozawa
- 1993: Adewale Olukoju (NGR)
- 1994: Yuji Yamazaki
- 1995: Yoshinori Nogawa
- 1996: Yoshihito Hosoda
- 1997: Shigeo Hatakeyama
- 1998: Shuichi Kato
- 1999–2005: Shigeo Hatakeyama
- 2006: Shiro Kobayashi
- 2007: Shigeo Hatakeyama
- 2008–09: Shiro Kobayashi
- 2010: Shigeo Hatakeyama
- 2011: Shiro Kobayashi
- 2012: Yuji Tsutsumi
- 2013: Satoshi Hatase
- 2014–17: Yuji Tsutsumi
- 2018: Materu Yugami
- 2019: Yuji Tsutsumi
- 2020-23: Yuji Tsutsumi
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