Kunimitsu Itō

Japanese long-distance runner

Kunimitsu Itō
Itoh finishing the IAAF Citizen Golden Marathon in Athens, Greece in 1982 in 2:16:05 for 9th position

Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Japan
Asian Championships
| 1975 Seoul | 5000 m
| 1981 Tokyo | 10,000 m
| 1979 Tokyo | 10,000 m

Kunimitsu Itō (伊藤 国光, Itō Kunimitsu, born January 6, 1955 in Ina, Nagano) is a retired long-distance runner from Japan, who finished second in the 1981 edition of the Fukuoka Marathon on December 6, 1981.

## International competitions

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Representing  Japan
1975  | Asian Championships | Seoul, South Korea | 1st  | 5000 m  | 14:00.8
1979  | Asian Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 2nd  | 10,000 m  | 29:00.2
1981  | Asian Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 1st  | 10,000 m  | 28:53.29
1983  | World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 28th  | 10,000 m  | 29:49.04

## Marathons

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1981  | Fukuoka Marathon | Fukuoka, Japan | 2nd  | Marathon  | 2:09:37
1982  | Fukuoka Marathon | Fukuoka, Japan | 4th  | Marathon  | 2:11:45

## References

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* 1981 Year List

## External links

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* Kunimitsu Itō at World Athletics

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Asian Athletics Champions in men's 5000 metres

* 1973: Ichio Sato (JPN)
* 1975: Kunimitsu Itō (JPN)
* 1979: Hideki Kita (JPN)
* 1981: Gopal Saini (IND)
* 1983: Zhang Guowei (CHN)
* 1985: Kozu Akutsu (JPN)
* 1987: Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama (QAT)
* 1989: Zhang Guowei (CHN)
* 1991: Mohamed Suleiman (QAT)
* 1993: Bahadur Prasad (IND)
* 1995: Saad Al-Asmari (KSA)
* 1998: Toshinari Takaoka (JPN)
* 2000: Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama (QAT)
* 2002: Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin (QAT)
* 2003: Abdulaziz Abdelrahman Al-Ameeri (QAT)
* 2005: James Kwalia (QAT)
* 2007: Felix Kibore (QAT)
* 2009: James Kwalia (QAT)
* 2011–2013: Dejenee Regassa (BHR)
* 2015: Mohamad Al-Garni (QAT)
* 2017: Govindan Lakshmanan (IND)
* 2019: Birhanu Balew (BHR)
* 2023: Hyuga Endo (JPN)
* 2025: Gulveer Singh (IND)

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Asian Athletics Champions in men's 10,000 metres

* 1973: Ichio Sato (JPN)
* 1975: Hari Chand (IND)
* 1979: Toshihiko Seko (JPN)
* 1981: Kunimitsu Itō (JPN)
* 1983–1985: Zhang Guowei (CHN)
* 1987: Cai Shangyan (CHN)
* 1989: Ryu Ok-hyon (PRK)
* 1991: Hwang Young-Jo (KOR)
* 1993: Alyan Sultan Al-Qahtani (KSA)
* 1995: Marly Sopyev (TKM)
* 1998: Baek Seung-do (KOR)
* 2000–2002: Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama (QAT)
* 2003: Ahmad Hassan Abdullah (QAT)
* 2005: Essa Ismail Rashed (QAT)
* 2007: Ahmad Hassan Abdullah (QAT)
* 2009: Hasan Mahboob (BHR)
* 2011–2013: Alemu Bekele (BHR)
* 2015: El-Hassan El-Abbassi (BHR)
* 2017: Govindan Lakshmanan (IND)
* 2019: Dawit Fikadu (BHR)
* 2023: Ren Tazawa (JPN)
* 2025: Gulveer Singh (IND)

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Japan Championships in Athletics men's 10,000 metres champions

* 1913; Shin Nakata
* 1914: Shotaro Koriyama
* 1915: Shizo Kanakuri
* 1916: Not held
* 1917: Tosaburo Yanagita
* 1920: Toshio Miyata
* 1921: Yamaguchi Miki
* 1922: Koji Shimomura
* 1923: Taro Hirano
* 1924: Not held
* 1925: Juichi Nagatani
* 1926: Shoichi Kusanagi
* 1927: Shigesaku Michikawa
* 1928: Juichi Nagatani
* 1929: Kazunori Morimoto
* 1930: Yukiki Nakajima
* 1931: Seiichiro Tsuda
* 1932: Masamichi Kitamoto
* 1933: Sami Koyanagi
* 1934–39: Kohei Murakoso
* 1940: Katsu Yamashita
* 1941: Not held
* 1942: Suenaga Tsutsumitoku
* 1943–45: Not held
* 1946–47: Suenaga Tsutsumitoku
* 1948: Ryosuke Takasugi
* 1949: Souichi Tamoi
* 1950: Ryosuke Takasugi
* 1951: Kenji Ishii
* 1952–53: Masuo Onishi
* 1954: Kazumi Umezawa
* 1955: Osamu Inoue
* 1956–57: Sekinosuke Aoki
* 1958: Takashi Baba
* 1959: Hidekuni Hiroshima
* 1960–61: Sekinosuke Aoki
* 1962: Kōkichi Tsuburaya
* 1963: Bill Baillie (NZL)
* 1964: Kazuo Tsuchiya
* 1965: Keisuke Sawaki
* 1966: Kazuo Tsuchiya
* 1967: Akio Usami
* 1968: Keisuke Sawaki
* 1969–70: Kenichi Otsuki
* 1971: Yasunori Hamada
* 1972: Toshio Miyashita
* 1973: Ichio Sato
* 1974: Katsuaki Isobata
* 1975: Nobuaki Takao
* 1976: Toshiaki Kamata
* 1977–78: Hideki Kita
* 1979: Yasunori Hamada
* 1980: Kunimitsu Itō
* 1981: Masaya Shintaku
* 1982–83: Takao Nakamura
* 1984: Masaya Shintaku
* 1985: Takao Nakamura
* 1986: Masaya Shintaku
* 1987: Kozu Akutsu
* 1988–89: Haruo Urata
* 1990–91: Thomas Osano (KEN)
* 1992: Mathias Ntawulikura (RWA)
* 1993: Stephen Mayaka (KEN)
* 1994–95: Aloÿs Nizigama (BDI)
* 1996: Toshinari Takaoka
* 1997: Julius Gitahi (KEN)
* 1998: Kenji Takao
* 1999: Toshinari Takaoka
* 2000: Sagayo Ngatho (KEN)
* 2001: Daniel Njenga (KEN)
* 2002: Tomoo Tsubota
* 2003: Toshihiro Iwasa
* 2004: Ryuji Ono
* 2005: Yu Mitsuya
* 2006–08: Takayuki Matsumiya
* 2009: Yuki Iwai
* 2010: Kensuke Takezawa
* 2011–14: Yuki Sato
* 2015: Tetsuya Yoroizaka
* 2016–17: Suguru Osako
* 2018: Shuho Dairokuno
* 2019: Kazuki Tamura
* 2020: Akira Aizawa
* 2021: Tatsuhiko Ito
* 2022: Akira Aizawa

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