Mikio Oda
Oda Mikio (Japanese织田 干 雄, born March 30, 1905 today Kaita, County Aki, Hiroshima Prefecture, † December 2, 1998 in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture) was a Japanese athlete and the first Olympic champion in an individual event from an Asian country.
Sports career
Oda first participated at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924. In the high jump with 1.80 meters, he could nor reach the final as in the long jump with 6.83 meters. In the triple jump, he was 14.35 meters sixth.
At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928, he competed in four competitions. In the high jump, he finished seventh with 1.88 meters. In the long jump he did not reach the final with 7.11 meters. In the triple jump with 15.21 meters, he won gold, four centimeters in front of the second-placed American Levi Casey. At the positions 3 and 4 were with Vilho Tuulos and Chūhei Nambu the Olympic champion of 1920 and 1932. Concluding the games Oda difference with the Japanese 4 x 100 meter relay from the inlet port.
1930 Oda was student world champion in the long jump. On October 27, 1931, he jumped in the triple jump world record with 15.58 meters. On the same day Chūhei Nambu jumped 7.98 world record in the long jump. These two world records were the first athletics world records that were set up by Asians. At the Olympics 1932 Oda was injured with 13.97 meters only twelfth in the triple jump, while Nambu won this competition.
Overall, Oda presented on 21 Asia records in the high jump, long jump, triple jump and decathlon and won seven titles at the East Asian Games.
Oda was 1.67 m tall and weighed in its active life of 65 kg. It was 1988 Bunka Kōrōsha, the person with special cultural merits, appointed.
More career
Mikio Oda included a graduated from Waseda University, where he was later professor himself, after he initially worked as a sports journalist for the Asahi Shimbun. From 1952 to 1964 Oda was coach of the Japanese Olympic team. He was honorary president of the Japanese Association of Athletics Federations JAAF, Council Member of the World Association of Athletics Federations IAAF and founding member of the Association of Statisticians ATFS. At the Olympic Games in 1964 him the Olympic flag was hung at a height of 15.21 meters honor.
In 2000, a ranking of Asian athletes of the 20th century have been prepared by experts of the Asian Athletics within the ATFS. Oda was here at No. 1 before Chūhei Nambu and the Taiwanese decathlete Yang Chuan Kwang.
Bests
- High Jump: 1.92 meters
- Long Jump: 7.52 meters
- Triple Jump: 15,58 meters