Haruka Kitaguchi
Haruka Kitaguchi (北口 榛花, Kitaguchi Haruka, born 16 March 1998) is a Japanese female javelin thrower, who won an individual gold medal at the Youth World Championships.[1] She also has the Japanese national record for the same event, as she threw 66.00 m at the Honjo Athletic Stadium in Kitakyushu in 2019. 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.[2][3]
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| Born | 16 March 1998 Asahikawa, Hokkaido | |||||||||||||
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| Country |  Japan | |||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Javelin throw | |||||||||||||
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References
- "IAAF World Youth Championships Cali 2015 - Statistics Handbook" (PDF). iaaf.org. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- "Haruka Kitaguchi wins historic javelin bronze for Japan at worlds". The Japan Times. 23 July 2022.
- "Australian Barber retains javelin world title". ESPN.com. 23 July 2022.
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