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Nobuharu Asahara

1972 - Today

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Nobuharu Asahara (朝原 宣治, Asahara Nobuharu; born 21 June 1972 in Kita-ku, Kobe) is a former Japanese athlete who specialized in the 100 meters and long jump. He won the 100 m at the Japanese national championship on five occasions in 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2002, and he took part in the Olympics four times in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008. He represented Japan six times at the World Championships in Athletics. At global-level championships, he reached the semifinals five times: at the 1996 Olympics and the World Championships in 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nobuharu Asahara is the 4,115th most popular athlete (down from 3,939th in 2019), the 3,488th most popular biography from Japan (down from 2,731st in 2019) and the 51st most popular Japanese Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Nobuharu Asahara ranks 4,116 out of 6,025Before him are Diego Salazar, Lee Sun-hee, Max Brown, Ahmad Abughaush, Wu Yu, Semen Novikov, and Rens Blom. After him are Xu Lili, Pang Wei, Zhang Xiangxiang, Mads Rasmussen, and Inga Abitova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Nobuharu Asahara ranks 1,012Before him are Stanislav Varga, Denílson Antônio Paludo, Masahiro Shimmyo, Todd Lowe, Boris Mironov, and Shane Kelly. After him are Tapan Kumar Pradhan, Tamara Gee, Ian Goodison, Zhuang Yong, Aurelia Dobre, and Crystal Allen.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nobuharu Asahara ranks 3,500 out of 6,245Before him are Kosuke Ota (1987), Kazuya Yamamura (1989), Masakatsu Sawa (1983), Takaya Kurokawa (1981), Kaela Kimura (1984), Hitomi Obara (1981), Kazuko Hironaka (1950), Kazuaki Yoshinaga (1968), Daisuke Tomita (1977), Aya Sameshima (1987), and Shin Asahina (1976). After him are Ippei Watanabe (1969).

Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Nobuharu Asahara ranks 51Before him are Yukinori Miyabe (1968), Masato (1979), Yoko Tanabe (1966), Mizuki Noguchi (1978), Sergio Fernández (null), and Kōichi Morishita (1967). After him are Kaori Matsumoto (1987), Junko Asari (1969), Masashi Ebinuma (1990), Miya Tachibana (1974), Takaharu Furukawa (1984), and Tomokazu Harimoto (2003).