is a 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 ...

. Abiko competed in the men'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, along with his teammates Kenji Narisako,

Dai Tamesue is the first Japanese sprinter to win a medal in a track event at a World Competition. Current Japanese record holder for Men’s 400 meter hurdle (as of July 2021). Bronze medalist of the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton and 2005 World Cham ...

, and Yoshihiro Horigome. He ran on the starting leg of the second heat, with an individual-split time of 46.70 seconds. Abiko and his team finished the relay in sixth place for a seasonal best time of 3:04.18, failing to advance into the final.

Personal bests

Records

*Medley relay (100m×200m×300m×400m) **Current Japanese university record holder - 1:50.12 s (relay leg: 2nd) ( Odawara, 16 October 2010) : with Sōta Kawatsura, Akihiro Urano, and Hideyuki Hirose

Competition record

References

External links

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Mitsuhiro Abiko
at JAAF
NBC 2008 Olympics profile
1988 births Living people Japanese male sprinters Olympic athletes for Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Yamagata Prefecture Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Japan Competitors at the 2009 Summer Universiade 21st-century Japanese people People from Yamagata (city) {{Japan-athletics-bio-stub