is a

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

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 specializes in the

100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been conteste ...

. She is the joint Japanese record holder in the 4×100 m relay, having run a time of 43.39 seconds alongside

Momoko Takahashi Momoko Takahashi (Japanese: 高橋萌木子; born 16 November 1988 in Saitama) is a Japanese track and field athlete who specialises in sprinting events. She has represented Japan twice at the World Championships in Athletics (2007 ...

, Chisato Fukushima and

Kana Ichikawa is a Japanese sprinter. She competed for the Japanese team in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2012 Summer Olympics; the team placed 15th with a time of 44.25 in Round 1 and did not qualify for the final. International competitions 1Did not ...

at the 2011

Seiko Golden Grand Prix The Golden Grand Prix Kawasaki is a track and field competition at the Japan National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan as part of the World Athletics Continental Tour. It was first organized in 2011 at the Todoroki Athletics Stadium in Kawasaki and sponso ...

.Nakamura, Ken (2011-05-08)
Pars defeats Murofushi, Japanese women's 4x100m Relay record falls in Kawasaki - IAAF World Challenge
IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-13. He first international competitions came in 2004, when she took the bronze medal over

60 metres 60 metres, or 60-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field. It is a championship event for indoor championships, normally dominated by the best outdoor 100 metres runners. At outdoor venues it is a rare distance, at least for senior ath ...

at the

2004 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships The 2004 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was an international indoor athletics event took place in Tehran, Iran, between 6 and 8 February. The female events were held separately from the men's events, taking place during the morning sessions. ...

and reached the 100 m semi-finals at that year's

World Junior Championships in Athletics The World Athletics U20 Championships is a biennial world championships for the sport of athletics organised by the World Athletics, contested by athletes in the under-20 athletics age category (19 years old or younger on 31 December in the ye ...

. The following year she came fourth at the

2005 East Asian Games The 4th East Asian Games was an international multi-sport event for countries in East Asia which was held in Macau from October 29 to November 6, 2005. Host city At the 11th EAGA Council Meeting held in Guam in March 1996, Macau, then a Portugues ...

before helping the Japanese women to the 4×100 m relay title.選手名鑑｜日本陸上競技連盟
. JAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-25. An appearance on the continental stage followed at the

2006 Asian Games 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

(where she was seventh in the 100 m final) and a relay silver medal came at the

2007 Asian Athletics Championships The 17th Asian Athletics Championships were held on the Amman International Stadium in Amman, Jordan between 25 July and 29 July 2007. It was moved in the last minute from original host country Lebanon due to the unrest in that country. Countrie ...

. Kitakaze earned her first global level selection for Japan that year, but her relay team was disqualified in the preliminary rounds of the

2007 World Championships in Athletics The 11th World Championships in Athletics, () under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan from 24 August to 2 September 2007. 200 of the IAAF's 212 member federat ...

Personal bests

Records

*4×100 m relay **Current Japanese record holder - 43.39 s (relay leg:1st) ( Kawasaki, 8 May 2011) : with

, Chisato Fukushima, and

Competition record

National Championship

References

External links

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Saori Kitakaze
at JAAF 1985 births Living people Japanese female sprinters People from Kushiro, Hokkaido Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Japan {{japan-athletics-bio-stub