Yumi Tanaka | |
Birth Date: | 15 December 1998 |
Birth Place: | Osaka Prefecture, Japan |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | 100 m hurdles |
Education: | Ritsumeikan University |
is a Japanese athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles. She represented her country at the 2023 World Championships, at the 2022 Asian Games and at the Paris Olympic Games 2024.
Her personal best in the event is 12.85 seconds (−0.3 m/s) set in Niigata in 2024.[1] This is the currently 2nd best in Japanese history.
Representing | ||||||
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2015 | World Youth Championships in Athletics | Cali, Colombia | 13th (sf) | 100 m hurdles | 13.64 | |
2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 34th (h) | 100 m hurdles | 13.12 | |
Asian Games | Hangzhou, China | 3rd | 100 m hurdles | 13.04 | ||
2024 | Olympic Gamess | Paris, France | 18th (sf) | 100 m hurdles | 12.91 |