Junko Asari
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| Medal record | |||
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 Junko Asari |
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| Women's Athletics | |||
Competitor for  Japan |
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| Gold | 1993 Stuttgart | Marathon | |
Junko Asari (born 22 September 1969 in Kazuno, Akita) is a retired Japanese marathon runner.
She won the gold medal at the 1993 World Championships in a time of 2:30:03 hours. In addition she won the Tokyo Marathon in 1995 and 1998 and the Osaka Marathon in 1993. Her personal best time was 2:26:10, from January 1994 in Osaka.[citation needed] She finished 17th at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
[edit] External links
- IAAF profile for Junko Asari
| World Champions in Women's Marathon |
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| 1983: Grete Waitz | 1987: Rosa Mota | 1991: Wanda Panfil | 1993: Junko Asari | 1995: Manuela Machado | 1997: Hiromi Suzuki | 1999: Jong Song-Ok | 2001: Lidia Simon | 2003: Catherine Ndereba | 2005: Paula Radcliffe| 2007: Catherine Ndereba |
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Preceded by Valentina Egorova |
Tokyo Women's Marathon Winner 1995 |
Succeeded by Nobuko Fujimura |
| Preceded by Makiko Ito |
Tokyo Women's Marathon Winner 1998 |
Succeeded by Eri Yamaguchi |
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