Yoshio Okita (Japanese: 沖田芳夫, March 28, 1903 – April 28, 2001) was a Japanese

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 events ...

athlete who won a gold medal in the

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ...

at the 1927 Far Eastern Championship Games. He competed in the hammer and discus throw at the

1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics ( nl, Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad ( nl, Spelen van de IXe Olympiade) and commonly known as Amsterdam 1928, was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from ...

and placed 15th and 30th, respectively. He also attended the 1932 and 1936 Olympics as a field coach for the Japanese athletics team. In 1993 Okita took part in the

World Masters Athletics Championships The World Masters Athletics Championships are the biennial championships for masters athletics events held under the auspices of World Masters Athletics, formerly called the World Association of Veteran Athletes, for athletes 35 years of age or o ...

. Being the sole hammer throw competitor in the over 90 years age group he won the event with a result of 12.1 m.

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1903 births 2001 deaths Japanese athletics coaches Japanese male hammer throwers Japanese male discus throwers Olympic male hammer throwers Olympic male discus throwers Olympic athletes for Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics Japan Championships in Athletics winners 20th-century Japanese people 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-athletics-bio-stub