Sayaka Aoki (athlete)

Sayaka Aoki

in India in 2017
Personal information
Native name	青木 沙弥佳
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(1986-12-15) 15 December 1986 Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	49 kg (108 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	4 × 400 metres relay
College team	Fukushima University
Achievements and titles
Personal best	400 m: 53.40 s (2007)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing Japan Asian Championships 2007 Amman 4×400 m

Sayaka Aoki (青木 沙弥佳, Aoki Sayaka, born 15 December 1986 in Gifu Prefecture) is a Japanese track and field sprinter and hurdler, who specializes in the 400 metres sprint and 400 metres hurdles. She competed for her country as part of the Japanese women's 4 × 400 metres relay team at the Summer Olympics in 2008 and the World Championships in Athletics three times (2007, 2009, 2015). She has been a four-time medallist in the relay at the Asian Athletics Championships (2007, 2011, 2013, 2017), including a gold medal in 2011. She won her first major international medal in the hurdles – a bronze – at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships.

Aoki competed for the women's 4 × 400 m relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, along with her teammates Mayu Kida, Satomi Kubokura, and Asami Tanno. She ran on the anchor leg of the first heat, with an individual-split time of 52.64 seconds. Aoki and her team finished the relay in last place for a seasonal best time of 3:30.52, failing to advance into the final.

Born in Gifu Prefecture, she attended Fukushima University and represented her country as a student-athlete at the 2007 Universiade.

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Japan
2007	Asian Championships	Amman, Jordan	5th	400 m hurdles	59.55
			2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:33.82
	Universiade	Bangkok, Thailand	12th (h)	400 m hurdles	58.80
	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	11th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:30.17
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	15th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:30.52
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	38th (h)	400 m hurdles	63.56
			14th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:34.46
	Asian Championships	Guangzhou, China	7th	400 m hurdles	62.21
2010	Asian Games	Guangzhou, China	4th	4 × 400 m relay	3:31.81
2011	Asian Championships	Kobe, Japan	4th	400 m	54.15
			1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:35.00
2013	Asian Championships	Pune, India	3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:35.72
	East Asian Games	Tianjin, China	2nd	400 m hurdles	58.06
			2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:40.55
2015	IAAF World Relays	Nassau, Bahamas	2nd (B)	4 × 400 m relay	3:34.65
	Asian Championships	Wuhan, China	6th	400 m	54.61
			4th	4 × 400 m relay	3:35.93
	World Championships	Beijing, China	13th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:28.91
2017	Asian Championships	Bhubaneswar, India	3rd	400 m hurdles	58.18
			3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:37.74
2019	Asian Championships	Doha, Qatar	10th (h)	400 m hurdles	59.43

External links

• Sayaka Aoki at World Athletics
• Sayaka Aoki at the Japan Association of Athletics Federations (in Japanese)
• Sayaka Aoki at Olympics.com
• Sayaka Aoki at Olympedia
• NBC 2008 Olympics profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 22 August 2012)