Hiroomi Yamada
Japanese long jumper
Hiroomi Yamada (山田 宏臣, Yamada Hiroomi, 4 March 1942 – 21 October 1981) was a Japanese long jumper who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics and in the 1968 Summer Olympics.[1]
Yamada was the first Asian to jump eight metres, doing so with a leap 8.01 at Odawara on June 7, 1970.[2][3]
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Hiroomi Yamada". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- ^ Career Statistics of Yamada
- ^ Personal best jumps over 7.82 metres (accessed July July 17, 2013)
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Asian Games champions in men's long jump
- 1951: Masaji Tajima (JPN)
- 1954: Noriaki Sagawa (JPN)
- 1958: Suh Yong-joo (KOR)
- 1962: Takayuki Okazaki (JPN)
- 1966: Hiroomi Yamada (JPN)
- 1970: Shinji Ogura (JPN)
- 1974: T. C. Yohannan (IND)
- 1978: Suresh Babu (IND)
- 1982–86: Kim Jong-il (KOR)
- 1990: Chen Zunrong (CHN)
- 1994: Huang Geng (CHN)
- 1998: Masaki Morinaga (JPN)
- 2002–06: Hussein Al-Sabee (KSA)
- 2010: Kim Deok-hyeon (KOR)
- 2014: Li Jinzhe (CHN)
- 2018–22: Wang Jianan (CHN)
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