Kazuhiro Mizoguchi

Japanese javelin thrower

Kazuhiro Mizoguchi (溝口 和洋, Mizoguchi Kazuhiro, born March 18, 1962 in Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan) is a Japanese former javelin thrower. He set the world best year performance in 1989, throwing 87.60 metres at a meet in San Jose, California, United States on May 27, 1989. Initially, it was announced as a new world record of 87m86, 20cm higher than the previous world record, but the measurer re-measured it with a plastic tape measure and announced it as 87m60.

International competitions

Representing  Japan
Year Competition Venue Position Notes
1983 Asian Championships Kuwait City, Kuwait 2nd
1984 Olympic Games Los Angeles, United States 20th 74.82 m
1985 Asian Championships Jakarta, Indonesia 3rd
1986 Asian Games Seoul, South Korea 1st
1987 World Championships Rome, Italy 6th 80.24 m
1988 Olympic Games Seoul, South Korea 19th 77.46 m
1990 Asian Games Beijing, China 3rd
1991 World Championships Tokyo, Japan 29th 73.78 m
1995 World Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 34th 68.66 m

References

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Asian Games champions in men's javelin throw
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  • 1915: Shinpei Higashiguchi
  • 1916: Not held
  • 1917–18: Kenkichi Saito
  • 1919: Hiroshi Masuda
  • 1920: Tadaomi Nimura
  • 1921: Hiroshi Masuda
  • 1922–23: Seiichi Ueda
  • 1924: Not held
  • 1925–27: Takeshi Ozaki
  • 1928–29: Kosaku Sumiyoshi
  • 1930: Kintaro Ito
  • 1931–32: Kosaku Sumiyoshi
  • 1933–35: Saburo Nagao
  • 1936: Suzuki Gensaburo
  • 1937–38: Masayuki Asakura
  • 1939–40: Noboru Sugita
  • 1941: Not held
  • 1942: Noboru Ueno
  • 1943–45: Not held
  • 1946–48: Masashi Irino
  • 1949: Gensaburo Suzuki
  • 1950–52: Haruo Nagayasu
  • 1953–55: Katsushige Watanabe
  • 1956: Takashi Miki
  • 1957: Rikuichi Shida
  • 1958: Takashi Miki
  • 1959: Rikuichi Shida
  • 1960: Shigeru Shirai
  • 1961–62: Takashi Miki
  • 1963: Jānis Lūsis (URS)
  • 1964–65: Takashi Miki
  • 1966: Yumio Miyoshi
  • 1967: Hisao Yamamoto
  • 1968: Takashi Miki
  • 1969–72: Hisao Yamamoto
  • 1973–74: Mr. Onda
  • 1975–77: Toshihiro Yamada
  • 1978: Haruhiko Maki
  • 1979: Kokita Kosao
  • 1980: Toshihiko Takeda
  • 1981: Masami Yoshida
  • 1982: Yoshiya Kuriyama
  • 1983–84: Masami Yoshida
  • 1985: Kazuhiro Mizoguchi
  • 1986: Masanori Amano
  • 1987–89: Kazuhiro Mizoguchi
  • 1990: Dmitriy Polyunik (URS)
  • 1991: Patrik Bodén (SWE)
  • 1992: Masami Yoshida
  • 1993: Takahiro Yamada
  • 1994–96: Kazuhiro Mizoguchi
  • 1997: Toru Ue
  • 1998: Toru Ue
  • 1999: Mikio Tamura
  • 2000–11: Yukifumi Murakami
  • 2012: Genki Dean
  • 2013: Yukifumi Murakami
  • 2014–20: Ryohei Arai
  • 2021: Takuto Kominami
  • 2022-23: Genki Dean
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