Asuka Cambridge
Cambridge at the 2016 Olympics
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| Personal information | |
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| Born |
May 31, 1993 Jamaica |
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) |
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| Country |
 Japan
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| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | 100 m, 200 m |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 100 m – 10.10 (2016) 200 m – 20.62 (2013) |
Asuka Antonio "Aska" Cambridge (ケンブリッジ 飛鳥? Kenburijji Asuka, born May 31, 1993) is a Japanese track and field sprinter who competes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. His personal best for 100m of 10.10 seconds is Japan's 9th fastest time. He is a two-time East Asian Games gold medallist and a relay bronze medallist at the World Junior Championships in Athletics. His father is Jamaican and his mother is Japanese.
In the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Cambridge was part of the 4×100 m relay for Japan, which took the silver medal in the final.
Cambridge was born in Jamaica to a Jamaican father and Japanese mother. His given name Asuka generally signifies "flying bird" in Japanese language, and has also been a city name and period name in Ancient Japan. (see Asuka period) When he was 2 years old, his family moved from Jamaica to Osaka, Japan. He played football until the age of twelve. When he was fourteen, he moved to Tokyo from Osaka. Cambridge then focused on athletics, running sprinting events for his high school in Tokyo and later at Nihon University, where he studied literature and science. He was fourth in the 100 m at the 2011 National Sports Festival of Japan. At the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics he narrowly missed out on the 200 m final, but he excelled in the relay alongside Kazuma Oseto, Akiyuki Hashimoto, and Kazuki Kanamori – the team ran an Asian junior record of 39.01 seconds in the heats (the fastest of all the qualifiers) and were just one hundredth slower in the final, where they claimed the bronze medals.
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