Kayoko Fukushi

Kayoko Fukushi (Japanese福士 加 代 子, Kayoko Fukushi, born March 25, 1982 in Itayanagi, Aomori Prefecture) is a Japanese long-distance runner.

In the Asian Games 2002, she won silver in the 5000m and 10,000 m. In the latter race she achieved her personal best of 30:51,81 min. Also from 2002 comes its Japanese record in the 3000 -meter run ( 8:44,40 min, July 15, Paris), who still has inventory (November 2007 ).

At the World Athletics Championships 2003 in Paris / Saint- Denis she won the 10,000 m and the eleventh in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens the 26th place. At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005, she came in the 5000m at No. 12 and 10,000 m in 11th place in the same year she worked with 14:53,22 min on 8 July in Rome their fourth national record over 5000 m, the is also up to date.

Her most successful year was 2006. On February 5, they won the Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon in 1:07:26 h So she put both a new Asian record in the half marathon on as well with the mean time of 46:55 minutes set a world record in the 15 - km road race, which was broken in November 2009 by Tirunesh Dibaba. At the World Cross Country Championships, she was also sixth as the road race World Championships 2006 in Debrecen, at the Athletics World Cup they finished fifth over 3000 meters and third in the 5000m, and at the Asian Games in 2006 she won gold in the 10,000 m.

At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, she took 10th place in the 10,000 m and 14th in the 5000m.

Fukushi was 2002-2007 sixth consecutive Japanese champion in the 10,000 m. With the exception of 2003, they took in each of these years also the national title over 5,000 m.

Your much-awaited marathon debut was disappointing. At the Osaka Women's Marathon, one of the qualifying race for the 2008 Olympics she placed an enormous pace and led at half-time with 1:10:32 hours and two minutes ahead, but broke on the last quarter of a perfect and came in 2:40: 54 h at No. 19 to the finish.

At the Beijing Games, she was eleventh in the 10,000 m and 5,000 m difference in the flow of. The following year she was at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin ninth in the 10,000 m. At the World Championships 2013 in Moscow, she was in the marathon third parties.

Kayoko Fukushi is 1,61 m tall and weighs 45 kg.