Career
She is the Japanese record holder in the women"s 100 metres and 200 metres. She began her career with appearances in the sprints at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics and the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics. Fukushima represented Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the 2012 Summer Games in London.
She competed at the 100 m sprint and placed fifth in her heat without advancing to the second round.
She ran the distance in a time of 11.74 seconds. In 2009, she broke Sakie Nobuoka"s 200 m Japanese national record of 23.33 seconds in Hiroshima, recording 23.14 seconds.
Soon after, she broke the national record in the 100 m for the first time, registering 11.28, then 11.24 seconds. She also broke the 200 metres Japanese record again with a run of 23.14 seconds.
Fukushima improved upon this in June at the Japanese national championships, winning the race in 23 seconds flat.
However, at the championships she finished fourth in the 200 m heats and was eliminated. She managed to reach the quarter-finals of the 100 m however. Three days later, she secured her second gold medal of the same meet together with her teammates in the women"s 4 x 100 m relay final.
She came third for the 2009 Japanese Athlete of the Year award by voting of an expert panel from Track and Field Magazine of Japan.
She began 2010 with a new record in the 100 m at the Mikio Oda Memorial International Amateur Athletic Game, recording a time of 11.21 seconds. At the 2011 set a new national relay record of 43.39 seconds alongside Saori Kitakaze, Takahashi and Kana Ichikawa.
On June 26, 2011, Chisato Fukushima ran a 100m time of 11.16 with +3.4 m/s wind in Tottori city, Japan. All information taken from IAAF profile.