Yoko Hunnicutt, née Ota (born 14 January 1975 in

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, Hyōgo and raised in

Kamakura, Kanagawa is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Kamakura has an estimated population of 172,929 (1 September 2020) and a population density of 4,359 persons per km² over the total area of . Kamakura was designated as a city on 3 November 1939. Kamak ...

) is a Japanese

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

er. Her personal best jump is 1.95 metres, achieved in July 2002 in

Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous city ...

. She finished fifth at the 1992 World Junior Championships and eleventh at the

2000 Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

. At the regional level she won the 1991 Asian Championships and the

1998 Asian Games The 1998 Asian Games (), officially known as the 13th Asian Games and the XIII Asiad, was an Asian multi-sport event celebrated in Bangkok, Thailand from December 6 to 20, 1998, with 377 events in 36 sports and disciplines participated by 6,554 ...

and finished second at the 1998 Asian Championships.

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1975 births Living people Sportspeople from Amagasaki People from Kamakura Athletes from Kanagawa Prefecture Japanese female high jumpers Olympic female high jumpers Olympic athletes for Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Asian Games Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Competitors at the 1995 Summer Universiade World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan Japan Championships in Athletics winners Asian Athletics Championships winners 20th-century Japanese women 21st-century Japanese women {{Japan-athletics-bio-stub