| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Japanese | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 1984 (1984-12) (age 40) Kagawa Prefecture, Japan[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Fukuoka University | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Country | Japan | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Long jump | |||||||||||||||||
| Retired | March 2020[2] | |||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||
| Personalbest(s) | Long jump: 6.65 (Hiroshima 2009) Triple jump: 13.34 (Fukuoka 2012) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sachiko Masumi (桝見 咲智子,Masumi Sachiko; born 20 December 1984) is a retired Japanesetrack and field athlete who competes in thelong jump. She has a personal best of 6.65 metres for the long jump and occasionally competes in thetriple jump, having a best of 13.34 m for that event. She was theJapanese Champion in the event in 2008 and 2009.
She was the gold medallist at theAsian Athletics Championships in 2013 and was the bronze medallist at the competition in 2009. She represented her country at the2009 World Championships in Athletics and has also competed for Japan at theAsian Games and theSummer Universiade.
Born inKagawa Prefecture, Sachiko Masumi went to Akiyoshi junior high school and competing in a variety of track and field events in her youth. She began to have success in the long jump and in her last year of junior high school she competed at theJapanese Athletics Championships, placing third and clearing six metres for the first time.[1] While attending Hideaki High School, she won the national high schools title in 2001 and broke the national junior record with a clearance of 6.43 m in 2002. In her last year of senior high school she placed third in the long jump at the national championships and came third in thetriple jump at theNational Sports Festival of Japan.[3]
Masumi attendedFukuoka University, studyingsports science, and competed at the2005 Summer Universiade. She finally improved upon her 2002 best in 2006, her fourth and final year at the university, with a jump of 6.53 m at theOsaka Grand Prix. After graduation she moved into theJapanese corporate system, competing for theKyudenko Corporation.[1] In her first year of professional competition she had a season's best of 6.45 m to take second at the Japanese Championships and placed fourth at the2007 Asian Athletics Championships.[3] Her first national title followed in 2008, but she was not chosen for the2008 Beijing Olympics.[4]
Masumi had a successive win at the national championships in 2009, clearing a personal best of 6.65 m and defeatingKumiko Ikeda.[5] This led to her first appearance at a major championships, but she failed to get past the qualifying stage of the2009 World Championships in Athletics inBerlin.[6] She won the long jump titles at the Japanese corporate championships and the National Games then took thebronze medal at the2009 Asian Athletics Championships (her first international medal).[3]
Although Masumi won at theShizuoka International with a jump of 6.59 m in May, Ikeda got the better of her at the 2010 Japanese Championships a month later. Both competed at the2010 Asian Games, but neither won a medal and Masumi placed eighth. She was absent for the 2011 season but returned in 2012. That year she placed second at thenational championships, did a long jump/triple jump double at the corporate championship, and won the triple jump at the Japanese Games.[3] Masumi was again runner-up nationally at the2013 Japanese Championships, beaten this time bySaeko Okayama.[7] She bested her rival at the2013 Asian Athletics Championships, however, clearing 6.55 m to win the gold medal and her first major title.[8]
| Event | Measure (m) | Competition | Venue | Date | Notes |
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| Long jump | 6.65(wind: +1.4 m/s) | National Championships | Hiroshima, Japan | 28 June 2009 | |
| Triple jump | 13.34(wind: +0.6 m/s) | National Corporate Championships | Fukuoka, Japan | 23 September 2012 | |
| 13.68(wind: +2.7 m/s) | National Sports Festival | Gifu, Japan | 7 October 2012 | Wind-assisted |
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Measure (m) | Notes |
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Representing Japan | ||||||
| 2005 | Universiade | Izmir, Turkey | 20th (q) | Long jump | 6.00(wind: +0.7 m/s) | |
| 2007 | Asian Championships | Amman, Jordan | 4th | Long jump | 6.34(wind: +4.0 m/s) | |
| 2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 26th (q) | Long jump | 6.23(wind: +0.5 m/s) | |
| Asian Championships | Guangzhou, China | 3rd | Long jump | 6.28(wind: -0.9 m/s) | ||
| 2010 | Asian Games | Guangzhou, China | 8th | Long jump | 6.11(wind: +0.5 m/s) | |
| 2013 | Asian Championships | Pune, India | 1st | Long jump | 6.55(wind: 0.0 m/s) | SB |
| 2017 | Asian Championships | Bhubaneswar, India | 7th | Long jump | 6.11(wind: +0.5 m/s) | |
| 8th | Triple jump | 12.59(wind: +1.0 m/s) | ||||
