Chisato Fukushima

Chisato Fukushima (福島 千里, Fukushima Chisato, born 27 June 1988, in Makubetsu, Hokkaido) is a Japanese track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Japan.^[1] She is the Japanese record holder in the women's 100 metres and 200 metres.

Chisato Fukushima

Fukushima in 2014
Personal information
Born	(1988-06-27) 27 June 1988 (age 36) Makubetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	48 kg (106 lb)
Sport
Country	Japan
Sport	Running
Event(s)	100 metres, 200 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best	100m: 11.21 200m: 22.88
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Japan Asian Games 2010 Guangzhou 100 m 2010 Guangzhou 200 m 2014 Incheon 100 m 2010 Guangzhou 4 x 100 m Relay Asian Athletics Championships 2009 Guangzhou 100 m 2009 Guangzhou 4 x 100 m Relay 2011 Kobe 200 m 2011 Kobe 4 x 100 m Relay 2015 Wuhan 100 m 2013 Pune 100 m

Career

She began her career with appearances in the sprints at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics and the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics. Fukushima represented Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the 2012 Summer Games in London. She competed at the 100 m sprint and placed fifth in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time of 11.74 seconds.^[1]

In 2009, she broke Sakie Nobuoka's 200 m Japanese national record of 23.33 seconds in Hiroshima, recording 23.14 seconds.^[2] Soon after, she broke the national record in the 100 m for the first time, registering 11.28, then 11.24 seconds. She also broke the 200 metres Japanese record again with a run of 23.14 seconds. Fukushima improved upon this in June at the Japanese national championships, winning the race in 23 seconds flat. In addition, this achieved the A standard, and qualification, for the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.^[3] However, at the championships she finished fourth in the 200 m heats and was eliminated. She managed to reach the quarter-finals of the 100 m however.

In November of the same year, she won her first Asian title in 100 m with 11.27 seconds into a negative wind of −1.0 m/s, at the 2009 Asian Championships in Athletics in Guangzhou, China. Three days later, she secured her second gold medal of the same meet together with her teammates in the women's 4 x 100 m relay final. She came third for the 2009 Japanese Athlete of the Year award by voting of an expert panel from Track and Field Magazine of Japan.

She began 2010 with a new record in the 100 m at the Mikio Oda Memorial International Amateur Athletic Game, recording a time of 11.21 seconds.^[4] She won the 100 m at the Japanese championships, beating Momoko Takahashi in a time of 11.39 seconds, but finished as runner-up behind her rival in the 200 m race.^[5] On 22 November, she won her first gold medal in 100 m at the 2010 Asian Games, again in Guangzhou, thus ending Japan's 44-year-long medal drought in the sprint event.

At the 2011 Seiko Golden Grand Prix Fukushima set a new national relay record of 43.39 seconds alongside Saori Kitakaze, Momoko Takahashi and Kana Ichikawa.^[6]

On 26 June 2011, Chisato Fukushima ran a 100m time of 11.16 with ＋3.4 m/s wind in Tottori city, Japan.

In 2015, she won a gold medal at the Asian Athletics Championships.^[7]

Fukushima finally broke her own national record in the 200 meters when she clocked 22.88 seconds at the 100th Japan National Championships on 26 June 2016, in Nagoya, giving her a sixth straight title and earning her a berth at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Fukushima's time at Paloma Mizuho Stadium, cut 0.01 second off the previous record she set back on 3 May 2010, and marked the first time she had broken 23 seconds since then.^[8]

On 20 January 2017, Chisato Fukushima said in a statement, "I left Hokkaido College of High Technology and its Athletes Club today. And I decided to become the professional, starting from today".

On 11 January 2018, Chisato Fukushima said at a news conference at Seiko's headquarters in Tokyo, "I am very pleased that I joined Seiko. I concentrate on practice in a new environment, first of all I would like to aim for updating my self-record Japanese records.".^[9][10]

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Japan
2005	World Youth Championships	Marrakech, Morocco	16th (sf)	100 m	11.95
			22nd (sf)	200 m	24.87
2006	World Junior Championships	Beijing, China	23rd (sf)	100m	12.11 (-1.8 m/s)
			—	4×100m relay	DQ
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	47th (h)	100 m	11.74
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	17th (qf)	100 m	11.43
			26th (h)	200 m	23.40
			14th (h)	4×100 m relay	44.24
	Asian Championships	Guangzhou, China	1st	100 m	11.27
			1st	4×100 m relay	43.93
2010	Continental Cup	Split, Croatia	6th	100 m	11.42[11]
	Asian Games	Guangzhou, China	1st	100 m	11.33
			1st	200 m	23.62
			3rd	4×100 m relay	44.41
2011	Asian Championships	Kobe, Japan	1st	200 m	23.49
			1st	4×100 m relay	44.05
	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	22nd (sf)	100 m	11.59
			20th (sf)	200 m	23.52
			11th (h)	4×100 m relay	43.83
2012	World Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	9th (h)	60 m	7.29 (NR)
	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	32nd (h)	100 m	11.41
			48 (h)	200 m	24.14
			15th (h)	4×100 m relay	44.25
2013	Asian Championships	Pune, India	2nd	100 m	11.53
			4th	200 m	23.81
			2nd	4×100 m relay	44.38
	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	37th (h)	200 m	23.85
2014	Asian Games	Incheon, South Korea	2nd	100 m	11.49
			3rd	200 m	23.45
			3rd	4×100 m relay	44.05
2015	Asian Championships	Wuhan, China	1st	100 m	11.23(+2.5m/s)
			2nd	4x100 m relay	44.14
	World Championships	Beijing, China	23rd (sf)	100 m	11.32
			34th (h)	200 m	23.30
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	38th (h)	200 m	23.21
2018	Asian Games	Jakarta, Indonesia	20th (h)	100 m	11.99
2019	Asian Championships	Doha, Qatar	16th (sf)	100 m	12.02

Personal bests

Event	Time (sec)	Venue	Date
60 m (Indoor)	7.29	Istanbul, Turkey	10 March 2012
100 metres	11.21	Hiroshima, Japan	29 April 2010
200 metres	22.88	Nagoya, Japan	26 June 2016

• All information taken from IAAF profile.

References

1. "Athlete biography: Chisato Fukushima". Beijing2008.cn. Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. Archived from the original on 8 September 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2008.
2. Nakamura, Ken (6 May 2009). "National women's 200m record and world season 10,000m lead–Japanese competition round-up". IAAF. Archived from the original on 9 May 2009. Retrieved 26 September 2009.
3. Nakamura, Ken (29 June 2009). "Sprinters excel at the Japanese Champs". IAAF. Archived from the original on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
4. Nakamura, Ken (30 April 2010). "Japanese 100m record for Fukushima in Hiroshima, world leading 27:15.73 for Thuo in Kobe". IAAF. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
5. Nakamura, Ken (7 June 2010). "Murofushi and Murakami extended their winning streak at the Japanese National Championships". IAAF. Archived from the original on 6 May 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
6. Nakamura, Ken (8 May 2011). "Pars defeats Murofushi, Japanese women's 4x100m Relay record falls in Kawasaki – IAAF World Challenge". IAAF. Archived from the original on 6 May 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
7. "Asian Athletics Championship: Poovamma and Liksy claim silver". The Times of India. TNN. 5 July 2015. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
8. "Fukushima breaks 200-meter national record to complete sprint double". Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2017-02-20.
9. "Sprinter Chisato Fukushima upbeat about training in new environment". japantimes.co.jp. Archived from the original on 2021-01-16. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
10. "福島千里選手がセイコーに入社 japanese web site". japan.cnet.com. Archived from the original on 2021-01-20. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
11. Representing Asia-Pacific

External links

• Chisato Fukushima at World Athletics
• Chisato Fukushima at JAAF (in Japanese)
• Chisato Fukushima at Olympedia
• Chisato Fukushima at Olympics.com
• Chisato Fukushima – Rio 2016 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)
• Chisato Fukushima – London 2012 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)
• Chisato Fukushima – Beijing 2008 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)