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
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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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
- Kazuhiro Mizoguchi at World Athletics
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Asian Games champions in men's javelin throw
- 1951: Haruo Nagayasu (JPN)
- 1954–1958: Muhammad Nawaz (PAK)
- 1962: Takashi Miki (JPN)
- 1966: Nashatar Singh Sidhu (MAS)
- 1970: Hisao Yamamoto (JPN)
- 1974: Toshihiro Yamada (JPN)
- 1978: Shen Maomao (CHN)
- 1982: Toshihiko Takeda (JPN)
- 1986: Kazuhiro Mizoguchi (JPN)
- 1990: Masami Yoshida (JPN)
- 1994: Zhang Lianbiao (CHN)
- 1998: Sergey Voynov (UZB)
- 2002: Li Rongxiang (CHN)
- 2006: Park Jae-myong (KOR)
- 2010: Yukifumi Murakami (JPN)
- 2014: Zhao Qinggang (CHN)
- 2018–2022: Neeraj Chopra (IND)
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