Yoshifumi Fujimori

Education

There he finished with a slightly slower time of 14.33 seconds, but this was enough for the silver medal behind Wang Xunhua of China.

Career

He competed twice for Asia at the IAAF World Cup. He ran a lifetime best of 14.06 seconds in May that same year – this was an Asian record for the discipline. Later that year he was chosen as Japan"s representative in the Asian Games in Bangkok.

This gained him his first selection to represent Asia at the 1979 IAAF World Cup, but at that competition in Montreal he failed to finish the race.

lieutenant was Fujimori and Kashiwazaki who were picked to run the sprint hurdles for Japan at the 1981 Asian Athletics Championships, which was held on home turf in Tokyo for second time running. The pair took the top two spots and it was Fujimori who took the gold medal, doing so with a championship record time of 14.22 seconds.

Another championship record followed the year after, this time at the Japan Championships with a run of 14.13 seconds. The time stood for seven years, at which point Toshihiko Iwasaki bettered the record.

Fujimori"s career peak was at the 1982 Asian Games held in New Delhi.

He was the fastest qualifier in the heats then reached an Asian Games record finishing time of 14.09 seconds.

Achievements

• Japan Championships in Athletics 110 m hurdles: 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983.

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The second national title of his career came in 1980, but again he failed to defend it the year after, with Noriyuki Takahashi taking the honours in 1981.