Asuka Cambridge
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Born | (1993-05-31) May 31, 1993 (age 31) Spanish Town, Jamaica | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 100 m, 200 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 100 m – 10.03 (2020) 200 m – 20.62 (2013)[1] 400 m – 52.19 (2009) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Asuka Antonio "Aska" Cambridge (ケンブリッジ 飛鳥, Kenburijji Asuka, born May 31, 1993) is a Jamaican-born Japanese track and field sprinter who competes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. His personal best of 10.03 in the 100m gives him Japan's 6th fastest time. He is a two-time East Asian Games gold medallist and a relay bronze medallist at the World Junior Championships in Athletics. His mother is Japanese and his father is Jamaican.[2]
In the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Cambridge was part of the 4 × 100 m relay for Japan, which took the silver medal in the final.
Biography
Cambridge was born in Jamaica to a Japanese mother and a Jamaican father. His given name Asuka generally signifies "flying bird" in Japanese language and has also been a city name and period name in Ancient Japan (see Asuka period).[2][3] When he was 2 years old, his family moved from Jamaica to Osaka, Japan. He played football until the age of twelve. When he was fourteen, he moved to Tokyo from Osaka. Cambridge then focused on athletics, running sprinting events for his high school in Tokyo and later at Nihon University, where he studied literature and science. He was fourth in the 100 m at the 2011 National Sports Festival of Japan.[4] At the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics he narrowly missed out on the 200 m final,[5] but he excelled in the relay alongside Kazuma Oseto, Akiyuki Hashimoto and Kazuki Kanamori – the team ran an Asian junior record of 39.01 seconds in the heats (the fastest of all the qualifiers) and were just one hundredth slower in the final, where they claimed the bronze medals.[6][7]
In 2013, Cambridge improved his personal best to 10.33 seconds for the 100 m and 20.62 seconds for the 200 m.[4] He won his first international gold medals at the 2013 East Asian Games by beating compatriot Shōta Iizuka in the 200 m and then teaming up with his rival to help secure the 4×100 metres relay title for Japan. Their time of 38.44 seconds was a new East Asian Games record – an improvement of nearly half a second.[8]
On June 25, 2016, Cambridge won the 100 m final at the Japan Championships in 10.16 to qualify for the Rio Olympics.[9]
On August 19, 2016, Cambridge won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 m relay for Japan at the 2016 Summer Olympics by setting a new Asian record of 37.60 seconds with teammates Ryōta Yamagata, Yoshihide Kiryū, and Shōta Iizuka.[10]
On August 29, 2020, Cambridge won the 100m final with a new personal best of 10.03 at the Athlete Night Games in Fukui.[11]
Japan's top 10 records for men's 100m
Rank | Time (sec) | Wind (m/s) | Athlete | Team | Place | Date |
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1 | 9.97 | +0.8 | Abdul Hakim Sani Brown | NCAA Championships | Austin | 7 June 2019 |
2 | 9.98 | +1.8 | Yoshihide Kiryu | Toyo University | Fukui | 9 September 2017 |
3 | 10.00 | +1.9 | Koji Ito | Fujitsu | Bangkok | 13 December 1998 |
+0.2 | Ryota Yamagata | Seiko Holdings | Osaka | 24 September 2017 | ||
+0.7 | Japan | Jakarta | 26 August 2018 | |||
5 | 10.02 | +2.0 | Nobuharu Asahara | Osaka Gas | Oslo | 13 July 2001 |
6 | 10.03 | +1.8 | Shingo Suetsugu | Tokai University | Mito | 5 May 2003 |
+1.0 | Asuka Cambridge | Nike | Fukui | 29 August 2020 | ||
8 | 10.07 | +1.9 | Masashi Eriguchi | Waseda University | Hiroshima | 28 June 2009 |
+1.8 | Shuhei Tada | Kwansei Gakuin University | Fukui | 9 September 2017 | ||
10 | 10.08 | +1.9 | Shota Iizuka | Mizuno | Totori | 4 June 2017 |
References
- ^ "Aska Cambridge IAAF profile". IAAF. Retrieved June 26, 2016.
- ^ a b Reid, Paul A. (August 13, 2016). Jamaica spreading its Men's 100m talent across the globe Archived August 12, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. Jamaica Observer.
- ^ Nagatsuka, Kaz (June 4, 2016). Cambridge dreaming of big future. Japan Times.
- ^ a b Asuka Cambridge. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on December 22, 2013.
- ^ 2098 World Junior Championships Men's 200000 metres semi-final. IAAF. Retrieved on December 22, 2013.
- ^ 2012 World Junior Championships 4x100 Metres Relay – men. IAAF. Retrieved on December 22, 2013.
- ^ JAPAN National Junior Records. JAAF. Retrieved on December 22, 2013.
- ^ Mulkeen, Jon (October 10, 2013). Chinese athletes dominate on home soil at East Asian Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-12-22.
- ^ Studying leads Cambridge to Rio. The Japan News. Retrieved on June 29, 2016.
- ^ Mckirdy, Andrew (August 20, 2016). "Bolt completes triple-triple with Jamaica's gold in 4×100 relay; Japan makes history by taking silver". The Japan Times Online. ISSN 0447-5763. Archived from the original on August 20, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
- ^ [1].NHK news. Retrieved on August 28, 2020.
External links
- Aska Cambridge at World Athletics
- Aska Cambridge at JAAF (in Japanese)
- Aska Cambridge at Olympics.com
- Aska Cambridge at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Official website
- Aska Cambridge on X
- Aska Cambridge on Facebook
- Aska Cambridge on Instagram
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- 1913–14 Kazue Akashi
- 1915 Yuzo Saito
- 1916 Shinpei Higashiguchi
- 1197 Sasago Tani
- 1918 Tsunemasa Matsuda
- 1919 Munetoshi Date
- 1920 Kunio Hiraoka
- 1921 Masayuki Takagi
- 1922–23 Sasago Tani
- 1924: Not held
- 1925 Sasago Tani
- 1926 Sadao Tajima
- 1927 Takeuchi Heizo
- 1928 Iwao Aizawa
- 1929 Sakae Yano
- 1930 Chūhei Nambu
- 1931–32 Takayoshi Yoshioka
- 1933 Chūhei Nambu
- 1934 Mutsuo Taniguchi
- 1935 Takayoshi Yoshioka
- 1936 Kanayuzawa
- 1937 Masao Yazawa
- 1938–40 Takayoshi Yoshioka
- 1941: Not held
- 1942 Toshihiro Osada
- 1943–45: Not held
- 1946 Nitawaki Isao
- 1947 Ichita Ikoma
- 1948 Nitawaki Isao
- 1949 Ichita Ikoma
- 1950 Tomio Hosoda
- 1951 Toshihiro Ohashi
- 1952 Herb McKenley (JAM)
- 1953 Ken Nakajima
- 1954–55 Kiyofuji Akira
- 1956–58 Kyohei Ushio
- 1959 Takeo Tamura
- 1960 Yojiro Muro
- 1961 Takeo Tamura
- 1962 Sergio Ottolina (ITA)
- 1963 Enrique Figuerola (CUB)
- 1964 Masaru Kamata
- 1965 Naoki Abe
- 1966 Toru Honda
- 1967 Junji Ishikawa
- 1968–71 Masahide Jinno
- 1972 Takao Ishizawa
- 1973–75 Masahide Jinno
- 1976 Tasaki Hiromichi
- 1977 Toshio Toyota
- 1978 Akira Harada
- 1979 Toshio Toyota
- 1980 Yasuhiro Harada
- 1981–82 Yoshihiro Shimizu
- 1983 Hirofumi Miyazaki
- 1984 Kaoru Matsubara
- 1985–86 Hirofumi Miyazaki
- 1987 Kaoru Matsubara
- 1988 Takahiko Kasahara
- 1989 Shinji Aoto
- 1990 Robson da Silva (BRA)
- 1991 Bruny Surin (CAN)
- 1992 Hisatsugu Suzuki
- 1993–94 Satoru Inoue
- 1995 Yoshitaka Ito
- 1996–97 Nobuharu Asahara
- 1998 Koji Ito
- 1999 Hiroyasu Tsuchie
- 2000–02 Nobuharu Asahara
- 2003–04 Shingo Suetsugu
- 2005 Shinya Saburi
- 2006–08 Naoki Tsukahara
- 2009–12 Masashi Eriguchi
- 2013 Ryota Yamagata
- 2014 Yoshihide Kiryū
- 2015 Kei Takase
- 2016 Asuka Cambridge
- 2017 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown
- 2018 Ryota Yamagata
- 2019 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown
- 2020 Yoshihide Kiryū
- 2021 Shuhei Tada
- 2022 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown
- 2023 Ryuichiro Sakai