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Name
  
Shunji Karube

Role
  
Olympic athlete

Weight
  
71 kg


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Shunji Karube (苅部 俊二, Karube Shunji, born 8 May 1969 in Minami-ku, Yokohama) is a retired Japanese athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles and occasionally the 400 metres.

Contents

He teaches sports at Hosei University.

Records

  • 4×400 m relay
  • Former Japanese university record holder - 3:07.51 s (relay leg: 4th) (Tokyo, 19 May 1991)
  • 400 metres (Indoor)
  • Former Asian record holder - 45.76 s (Paris, 9 March 1997)
  • Current Japanese record holder - 45.76 s (Paris, 9 March 1997)
  • 4×400 m relay (Indoor)
  • Current Asian and Japanese record holder - 3:05.90 s (relay leg: 4th) (Maebashi, 6 March 1999)
    • a with Kazuhiro Takahashi, Jun Osakada, and Masayoshi Kan

    National championships

    He has won 3 times the individual national championship.

  • 1 wins in the 400 metres (1993)
  • 2 wins in the 400 metres hurdles (1994, 1997)

    • References

    Shunji Karube Wikipedia
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