Kenji Tabata
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Nationality | ![]() 400 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 200 m: 21.16 (Fukuchiyama 2002) 400 m: 45.69 (Fukuoka 1998) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kenji Tabata (田端 健児, Tabata Kenji, born 24 September 1974) is a retired Japanese sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.
He won the bronze medal at the
Sugath Tillakaratne and fellow Japanese sprinter Masayoshi Kan
.
Tabata also competed at two World Championships (1999 and 2001) as well as the 2000 Summer Olympics where he failed to reach the final round.
International competition
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time | Notes |
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1992 | Asian Junior Championships | New Delhi, India
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2nd | 400 m | 47.68 | |
1st | 4×400 m relay | 3:11.29 | ||||
1995 | Universiade | Fukuoka, Japan | 15th (qf) | 400 m | 46.76 | |
4th | 4×400 m relay | 3:02.51 (relay leg: 1st) | ||||
1996 | Olympic Games[2] | Atlanta, United States | (h)1 | 4×400 m relay | 3:02.82 (relay leg: 4th) | |
1998 | Asian Championships | Fukuoka, Japan | 3rd | 400 m | 45.69 | PB |
1st | 4×400 m relay | 3:02.61 (relay leg: 1st) | ||||
World Cup | Johannesburg, South Africa | 5th | 4×400 m relay | 3:03.94 (relay leg: 3rd) | ||
Asian Games | Bangkok, Thailand | 7th | 400 m | 46.96 | ||
1st | 4×400 m relay | 3:01.70 (relay leg: 2nd) | GB | |||
1999 | World Championships | Seville, Spain | 31st (h) | 400 m | 46.42 | SB |
10th (h) | 4×400 m relay | 3:02.50 (relay leg: 3rd) | SB | |||
2000 | Olympic Games[2] | Sydney, Australia | 47th (h) | 400 m | 46.59 | |
15th (sf) | 4×400 m relay | 3:13.63 (relay leg: 3rd) | ||||
2001 | World Championships | Edmonton, Canada
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12th (h) | 4×400 m relay | 3:02.75 (relay leg: 1st) | SB |
2002 | Asian Games | Busan, South Korea | 7th | 400 m | 46.61 | |
4th | 4×400 m relay | 3:05.85 (relay leg: 2nd) | ||||
2003 | World Championships | Paris, France | 7th | 4×400 m relay | 3:03.15 (relay leg: 3rd) |
1Competed only in the heat.
National titles
- Japanese Championships
- 400 m: 1998, 2002
References
- ^ "奨学生レポート「Story」vol.15 田端健児". Hisami Matsuzono Memorial Foundation (in Japanese). Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kenji Tabata". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
External links
- Kenji Tabata at World Athletics
- Kenji Tabata at Olympics.com
- Kenji Tabata at Olympedia
- Kenji Tabata at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (English translation)
- Kenji Tabata at JAAF (in Japanese) (archived)
- Kenji Tabata at Mizuno(in Japanese) (archived)