Shuhei Nishida

Nishida Shūhei (Japanese西 田 修 平; born May 21, 1910 in Nachi Katsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, † April 13, 1997 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese athlete who mattered in the 1930s, a world leader in the pole vault. He won two Olympic silver medals.

• At the games in 1932 in Los Angeles, he jumped over 4.30 m and subject to the victorious Americans Bill Miller just a single inch. The third-place finisher, George Jefferson, came to 4.20 m.
• At the Olympic pole vault competition of 1936 in Berlin, the result was even more scarce: Nishida was skipped with 4.25 Although ten centimeters below the performance of Earle Meadows, who won gold with 4.35 m, but the silver medal won only because of the lower number of failed attempts against his compatriot Ōe Sueo.

Successful Nishida was especially in the Summer Student World Championships and the International University Games, the precursors of the Universiade. He won three medals:

• Silver with 3.70m in Paris in 1928
• Gold with 4.11 m in 1930 in Darmstadt
• Gold with 4.30 m in 1935 in Budapest

In 1930 he was victorious in the Far East Championships in Tokyo with 4.00 m. In 1951 the 41 -year-old at the Asian Games in New Delhi, India part and was skipped with 3.61 m of third parties. About his performance at the Japanese National Championships nothing is handed down.

Nishida graduated from Waseda University. After the 2nd World War he worked as Manager of the Japanese athletics team. He was also in the 1950s and 1960s, the Board of the Amateur Athlete Federation of Japan.