Koji Sakurai
Japanese triple jumper
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| Born | (1936-02-18) February 18, 1936 (age 88) Tokyo, Japan | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Japan | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Triple jump | |||||||||||||||||
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Koji Sakurai (桜井 孝次, Sakurai Kōji, born February 18, 1936) is a retired Japanese triple jumper. He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics with the best achievement of seventh place in 1956. His personal best was 16.18 m, set in 1963.[1]
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Asian Games champions in men's triple jump
- 1951: Yoshio Iimuro (JPN)
- 1954: Noriaki Sagawa (JPN)
- 1958: Mohinder Singh (IND)
- 1962: Koji Sakurai (JPN)
- 1966: Kosei Gushiken (JPN)
- 1970: Mohinder Singh Gill (IND)
- 1974: Toshiaki Inoue (JPN)
- 1978: Masami Nakanishi (JPN)
- 1982: Zou Zhenxian (CHN)
- 1986: Norifumi Yamashita (JPN)
- 1990: Chen Yanping (CHN)
- 1994: Oleg Sakirkin (KAZ)
- 1998: Sergey Arzamasov (KAZ)
- 2002: Salem Al-Ahmadi (KSA)
- 2006–10: Li Yanxi (CHN)
- 2014: Cao Shuo (CHN)
- 2018: Arpinder Singh (IND)
- 2022: Zhu Yaming (CHN)
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