is a retired Japanese sprinter, who specialized in the
400 metres
The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics (sport), athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor runn ...
. Kida competed for the
women's 4 × 400 m relay at the
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
in
Beijing
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, along with her teammates
Sayaka Aoki,
Satomi Kubokura
is a Japanese people, Japanese track and field athlete who competes in the 200 metres, the 400 metres and the 400 m hurdles.
Her personal bests are 24.32 in the 200 m achieved at Kobe on April 27, 2008; 38.12 in the 300 metres at Izumo, Shimane ...
, and
Asami Tanno. She ran on the third leg of the first heat, with an individual-split time of 52.72 seconds. Kida and her team finished the relay in last place for a seasonal best time of 3:30.52, failing to advance into the final.
International competition
References
External links
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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
at JAAF
Mayu Kida
at TBS (archived)
1982 births
Living people
Japanese female sprinters
Sportspeople from Hokkaido
Olympic athletes for Japan
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan
Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Asian Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for Japan
Japan Championships in Athletics winners
Olympic female sprinters
20th-century Japanese women
21st-century Japanese women
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