Nobuharu Asahara
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 Japan
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| Born |
21 June 1972 (age 44) Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan |
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| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Sprints, Long jump | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University team | Doshisha University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 23 September 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Now coaching | Osaka Gas Track and Field Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) |
100 m: 10.02 (Oslo 2001) |
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Medal record
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100 m: 10.02 (Oslo 2001)
200 m: 20.39 (Stuttgart 1997)
Nobuharu Asahara (朝原 宣治 Asahara Nobuharu?, born 21 June 1972 in Kita-ku, Kobe) is a Japanese former athlete who specialized in the 100 metres and long jump. He won the 100 m at the Japanese national championship on five occasions in 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2002, and he took part in the Olympics four times in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008. He represented Japan six times at the World Championships in Athletics.
At global-level championships, he reached the semifinals five times: at the 1996 Olympics and the World Championships in 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2007. He also finished twelfth in the long jump final at the 1995 World Championships. In addition he won silver medals in both 100 m and 4 x 100 m relay at the 2002 Asian Games.
Asahara started out as a long jump specialist and he won a silver medal at the 1990 Asian Junior Championships with a jump of 7.49 metres. He gained his first major regional medal at the 1993 East Asian Games in May, where he took a silver with a jump of 7.93 m to finish behind Nai Hui-Fang. He won the 1993 Asian Championships in a new championship record and career best of 8.13 m (a mark which was broken in 1995 by Huang Geng).
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