is a retired Japanese athlete who specialized in the

400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Summer Olympics, Olympic Sport of athletics, athletics programme since 1900 Summer Olympics, 1900 for men and since 1984 Summer Olympics, 1984 for women. On a ...

. He won bronze medals in

4 × 400 metres relay The 4 × 400 metres relay or long relay is an athletics track and field, track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 400 metres or one lap, totaling 1600 meters. It is traditionally the final event of ...

in two editions of the World Indoor Championships; in

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with teammates Masayoshi Kan,

Yoshihiko Saito is a retired Japanese athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles. He was the first Asian to run under 49 seconds in the event. With a personal best time of 48.64 seconds, achieved in October 1998 in Kumamoto, he is a former Asian record ...

and Hiroyuki Hayashi and in

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with Kan, Hayashi and Tomonari Ono. He also competed in the same event at the 1997 World Championships without reaching the final.1997 World Championships Official Results – 4x400 Metres Relay – Men – Semi-Final
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* 1973 births Living people Japanese male hurdlers Japanese male sprinters Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Asian Games FISU World University Games silver medalists for Japan Asian Games competitors for Japan World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists Medalists at the 1993 Summer Universiade 20th-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-hurdles-athletics-bio-stub