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track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

sprint athlete who competes internationally for Japan. She is the Japanese record holder in the women's

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and

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Career

She began her career with appearances in the sprints at the

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and the

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. Fukushima represented

Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics Japan competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. The delegation of athletes and officials were represented by the Japanese Olympic Committee. The list of qualified entries for Japan is shown. In some cases, the ...

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, and the 2012 Summer Games in London. 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. In 2009, she broke Sakie Nobuoka's 200 m Japanese national record of 23.33 seconds in Hiroshima, recording 23.14 seconds. 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

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

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. 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

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, China. Three days later, she secured her second gold medal of the same meet together with her teammates in the women's

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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

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, recording a time of 11.21 seconds. She won the 100 m at the Japanese championships, beating

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in a time of 11.39 seconds, but finished as runner-up behind her rival in the 200 m race. On November 22, she won her first gold medal in 100 m at the 2010 Asian Games, again in

, thus ending Japan's 44-year-long medal drought in the sprint event. At the 2011

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Fukushima set a new national relay record of 43.39 seconds alongside Saori Kitakaze,

and

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. On June 26, 2011, Chisato Fukushima ran a 100m time of 11.16 with ＋3.4 m/s wind in Tottori city, Japan. In 2015, she won a gold medal at the

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. Fukushima finally broke her own national record in the 200 meters when she clocked 22.88 seconds at the 100th Japan National Championships on June 26, 2016 in

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, giving her a sixth straight title and earning her a berth at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Fukushima’s time at Paloma Mizuho Stadium, cut 0.01 second off the previous record she set back on May 3, 2010, and marked the first time she had broken 23 seconds since then. On January 20, 2017, Chisato Fukushima said in a statement, "I left Hokkaido College of High Technology and its Athletes Club today. And I decided to become the professional, starting from today". On January 11, 2018, Chisato Fukushima said at a news conference at

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’s headquarters in Tokyo, “I am very pleased that I joined Seiko. I concentrate on practice in a new environment, first of all I would like to aim for updating my self-record Japanese records.".

Competition record

Personal bests

* All information taken from IAAF profile.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fukushima, Chisato 1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Hokkaido Japanese female sprinters Olympic athletes of Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Asian Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan Japan Championships in Athletics winners Olympic female sprinters 20th-century Japanese women 21st-century Japanese women