is a

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sprint athlete who specializes in the

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. She is the joint Japanese record holder in the 4×100 m relay, having run a time of 43.39 seconds alongside

Momoko Takahashi Momoko Takahashi ( Japanese: 高橋萌木子; born 16 November 1988 in Saitama) is a Japanese track and field athlete who specialises in sprinting events. She has represented Japan twice at the World Championships in Athletics (2007 and 2009) ...

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and Kana Ichikawa at the 2011 Seiko Golden Grand Prix.Nakamura, Ken (2011-05-08)
Pars defeats Murofushi, Japanese women's 4x100m Relay record falls in Kawasaki - IAAF World Challenge
IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-13. He first international competitions came in 2004, when she took the

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over

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at the

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and reached the 100 m semi-finals at that year's

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. The following year she came fourth at the

2005 East Asian Games The 4th East Asian Games was an international multi-sport event for countries in East Asia which was held in Macau from October 29 to November 6, 2005. Host city At the 11th EAGA Council Meeting held in Guam in March 1996, Macau, then a Portugue ...

before helping the Japanese women to the 4×100 m relay title.選手名鑑｜日本陸上競技連盟
. JAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-25. An appearance on the continental stage followed at the

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(where she was seventh in the 100 m final) and a relay

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came at the 2007 Asian Athletics Championships. Kitakaze earned her first global level selection for Japan that year, but her relay team was disqualified in the preliminary rounds of the

2007 World Championships in Athletics The 11th World Championships in Athletics, () under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan from 24 August to 2 September 2007. 200 of the IAAF's 212 member feder ...

Personal bests

Records

*4×100 m relay **Current Japanese record holder - 43.39 s (relay leg:1st) ( Kawasaki, 8 May 2011) : with

, and Kana Ichikawa

Competition record

National Championship

References

External links

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Saori Kitakaze
at JAAF 1985 births Living people Japanese athletics coaches Japanese female sprinters Sportspeople from Kushiro Athletes from Hokkaido Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games athletes for Japan Asian Athletics Championships medalists 21st-century Japanese sportswomen {{Japan-sprint-athletics-bio-stub