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Haruka Kitaguchi
Japanese javelin thrower (born 1998) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Haruka Kitaguchi (北口 榛花, Kitaguchi Haruka, born 16 March 1998) is a Japanese female javelin thrower who is the reigning world champion in women's javelin throw.
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Born | (1998-03-16) 16 March 1998 (age 26) Asahikawa, Hokkaido |
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) |
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Sport | Athletics |
Event | Javelin throw |
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Highest world ranking | 1st (2023)[1] |
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Kitaguchi won an individual gold medal at the Youth World Championships[2] and has set Japanese national records in the discipline, throwing 66.00 m at the Honjo Athletic Stadium in Kitakyushu in 2019 and 67.38 m at the Memorial Van Damme event in Brussels in 2023. At the 2022 World Athletics Championships she won a bronze medal, which made her the first Japanese woman to win a medal in any throwing event at a World Championships or Olympics.[3][4]
In 2023, in her best achievement, she won the gold medal in javelin throw, in her 6th and final throw at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.