is a Japanese athlete specialising in sprinting events. Sani Brown has a Japanese mother and a Ghanaian Dagomba father. Sani Brown won the

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at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics setting a championship record of 10.28 (−0.4) in the final.

Career

In Japan, Sani Brown ran for Josai High School, a private high school operated by the same corporation that operates Josai University in the

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ward of

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. and qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Summer Games running 100 in 9.99 seconds on 12 May 2019. Sani Brown finished as runner up at the 2015 Japanese senior National Championships in both the 100m and the 200m, but did not run a qualifying time for the world championships in either event. At the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics Sani Brown equalled his personal best of 10.30 in the 100m heats to set a new championship record before running 10.28 into a −0.3 headwind to improve that mark in the final. Three days later he doubled by winning the

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in 20.34 into a −0.7 headwind. The time was .16 faster than the championship qualifying standard, thereby punching Sani Brown's ticket to the world championships as a sixteen year old. At the 2015 World Championships Sani Brown qualified for the semi-final round against athletes who were at least three years his senior. In 2016, he committed to the

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. In the 2019 NCAA championships he set the former Japanese record at 9.97s. He was a member of the 4x100m relay team which won the NCAA Championship in 2019. At the 2022 World Championships, he became the first person from Japan to qualify for the finals in the 100m, running 9.98 in the heats and 10.06 in the finals for seventh place.Athletics: Sani Brown 1st Japanese to reach 100m final at worlds
Kyodo News, July 17, 2022

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sani Brown, Abdul Hakim 1999 births Living people Japanese male sprinters World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan World Athletics Championships medalists Japan Championships in Athletics winners Florida Gators men's track and field athletes Japanese people of Ghanaian descent Sportspeople of Ghanaian descent Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Japan 20th-century Japanese people 21st-century Japanese people