Yumi Kokamo

Yumi Kokamo (Japanese小鸭 由 水, Kokamo Yumi, born December 26, 1971 in Akashi ) is a former Japanese marathon runner.

After high school, she became in 1990 a member of the company team from Daihatsu. With a 20 -km time of 1:07:10 hours, achieved on November 10, 1991 in Kobe as a wholesale service, she won her debut at the Osaka Women's Marathon and placed it with 2:26:26 hours a Japanese record and a debut on world best time.

Thus, she qualified for the Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​but where they finished only 29th place in 2:58:18. In 1993 she left Daihatsu and wrote between 1994 and 1996 at the high school short Ryukoku University in order to study social work.

In 1996, she joined the corporate team of Iwataya, where she was coached by Morio Shigematsu. In 1998 she married and took the family name Matsunaga (松 永). As the year after Iwataya disbanded his team, she left the company and ended her sports career.

Today she is a mother of two children and works in Fukuoka as an instructor in disability sport and elderly care centers. As a people, runner, it is still active, and since 2009 she is the captain of the company founded by Morio Shigematsu Women's Athletics Association First Dream AC. Shortly thereafter, she competed in the Osaka Women's Marathon - her first serious marathon since the Olympic Games - and came in 2:58:52 on the 58th. Their goal, their time from Barcelona to beat in 1992, then went at Hokkaido Marathon the same year with 2:52:59 ( 20th place ) in fulfillment.