Kinue Hitomi

Hitomi Kinue (Japanese人 见 绢 枝, old spelling Hitomi Kinuye; * January 1, 1907 in Fukunari, Fukuhama, Mitsu -gun (now Fukunari, Minami- ku, Okayama ), Okayama Prefecture; † August 2, 1931 ) was a Japanese athlete who was successful in the 1920s at the Women's World games and a silver medal won at the first Olympics in which women were allowed in athletics. She was the only woman in the 40-strong Japanese team and the first woman to win an Olympic medal for Japan.

Your first athletic performance, it achieved the age of 16, when she jumped 4,67 m wide. After leaving school, the farmer's daughter attended the Women's College of Physical Education. Your talent as a writer used it as a journalist for a Japanese newspaper.

She died at the age of only 24 years of pneumonia.

Services

• Women's World Games 1926 in Gothenburg Bronze over 100 yards in 12.0 seconds behind the French and the British Marguérite Radideau Rose Thompson, both 11.8 sec
• Silver in the discus with 33.62 meters behind the Polin Halina Konopacka with 37,71 m and the Swede Elsa Svensson with 31.78 m
• Gold in the long jump with the world record distance of 5.50 m before the British Muriel Gunn with 5.44 m and the Czech Zdenka Smolová with 5.28 m
• Gold in the long jump with 2.49m from the state before Zdenka Smolová with 2.47 m and 2.37 m with Briton Barbara Halliday

• Bronze 60 m in 7.8 sec behind the Polish Stanisław Walasiewicz and Deutsche Lisa Gelius in 7.8 sec
• Bronze in the javelin with 37,01 m behind the two German Liesel Schumann with 42,32 m and 40,59 m with Auguste Hargus
• Silver in powerlifting ( javelin, high and 1000 m) behind the German Ellen Braumüller
• Gold in the long jump with 5.90 m in front of the British Muriel Gunn Cornell 5.76 m and the German Selma Grieme with 5.71 m

• Silver over 800 meters in 2:17,6 min behind the German Lina Radke in 2:16,8 min and before the Swede Inga Gentzel

• Triple Jump: 11,62 m on May 17, 1926 in Harbin
• Long Jump: 5.50m on 28 August 1926, 5.98 m on 20 May 1928 in Osaka