Chiaki Takada (born 1984) is a Japanese Paralympic athlete who competes in long jump at international track and field competitions, she is a former sprinter. She is a
World
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silver medalist and has competed at the
2016
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and
2020 Summer Paralympics
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, she trains with former Japanese Olympic sprinter
Shigekazu Omori who is also her running guide and Olympic long jumper
Kumiko Ikeda
is a Japanese long jumper.
She won bronze medals at the 2000 World Junior Championships and the 2001 Summer Universiade, and finished eleventh at the 2001 World Championships. On the regional level she won a bronze medal at the 2005 Asian Cha ...
coaches her in the long jump.
Takada is married to Yuji Takada who is a three-time
Deaflympics
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athlete who competes in
400 metre hurdles
The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women.
On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, once ar ...
. They both met at the Japan Para Athletics Championships in 2006 then got married in 2008, they have a son together who was born in 2009.
References
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1984 births
Living people
People from Mitaka, Tokyo
Paralympic athletes for Japan
Japanese female sprinters
Japanese female long jumpers
Visually impaired sprinters
Visually impaired long jumpers
Paralympic sprinters
Paralympic long jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the World Para Athletics Championships
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Para Games
21st-century Japanese women