Takao Sakamoto

Japanese high jumper (born 1958)

Takao Sakamoto

Personal information

Born| 19 December 1958
Gunma, Japan
Height| 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight| 72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Sport| Athletics
Event| high jump

Medal record

Men's athletics
Representing  Japan
Asian Championships
| 1979 Tokyo | High jump
| 1981 Tokyo | High jump
| 1985 Jakarta | High jump

Takao Sakamoto (阪本 孝男, Sakamoto Takao; born 19 December 1958) is a Japanese former high jumper who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.[1]

Sakamoto won the British AAA Championships title twice, at the 1979 AAA Championships[2] and the 1982 AAA Championships.[3]

## References

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1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Takao Sakamoto". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
2. ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
3. ^ "AAA Championships (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 12 June 2025.

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Asian Games champions in men's high jump

* 1951: Andres Franco (PHI)
* 1954: Ajit Singh Balla (IND)
* 1958: Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam (CEY)
* 1962: Kuniyoshi Sugioka (JPN)
* 1966: Bhim Singh (IND)
* 1970–1974: Teymour Ghiasi (IRI)
* 1978: Takao Sakamoto (JPN)
* 1982–1986: Zhu Jianhua (CHN)
* 1990: Zhou Zhongge (CHN)
* 1994: Takahisa Yoshida (JPN)
* 1998–2002: Lee Jin-taek (KOR)
* 2006: Jean-Claude Rabbath (LIB)
* 2010–2014: Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT)
* 2018: Wang Yu (CHN)
* 2022: Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT)

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Japan Championships in Athletics men's high jump champions

* 1913–14: Masato Naito
* 1915: Aijiro Hara
* 1916: Daisuke Miyake
* 1917: Ichiro Sawada
* 1918: Juro Date
* 1919: Goro Kozawa
* 1920: Juro Date
* 1921: Takeshi Hirai
* 1922: Ishii Senzo & Yonetaro Nakazawa & Takeshi Hirai & Juro Date
* 1923: Yoshio Miki
* 1924: Not held
* 1925: Kenzo Naito & Shin Hiraoka
* 1926–29: Kazuo Kimura
* 1930: Riichi Tomiya
* 1931: Kazuo Kimura
* 1932: Misao Ono
* 1933: Kiyoshi Adashi
* 1934–35: Yoshiro Asakuma
* 1936: Isao Kashima
* 1937: Sanichi Okamoto
* 1938: Manabu Hara
* 1939: Sanichi Okamoto
* 1940: Manabu Hara
* 1941: Not held
* 1942: Katsuo Morishima
* 1943–45: Not held
* 1946: Manabu Hara
* 1947: Hiroshi Tanaka
* 1948–51: Yoshihiro Suzuki
* 1952: Yukio Ishikawa
* 1953: Kazuyoshi Yamamoto
* 1954: Takehiko Nakajima
* 1955: Noboru Kasamatsu
* 1956: Yukio Ishikawa
* 1957–58: Noboru Kasamatsu
* 1959–60: Kuniyoshi Sugioka
* 1961: Kinya Miyazaki
* 1962: Yasuhiro Ishibe
* 1963: Tony Sneazwell (AUS)
* 1964: Kinya Miyazaki
* 1965: Kuniyoshi Sugioka
* 1966: Osamu Shimizu
* 1967: Hidehiko Tomizawa
* 1968–69: Kuniyoshi Sugioka
* 1970–71: Hidehiko Tomizawa
* 1972: Kuniyoshi Sugioka
* 1973: Hidehiko Tomizawa
* 1974: Katsuhiro Kagei
* 1975: Toshihide Hamano
* 1976: Kazunori Koshikawa
* 1977: Katsuhiro Kagei
* 1978: Takao Sakamoto
* 1979: Toshinori Yamamoto
* 1980: Takeyoshi Sawa
* 1981–84: Takao Sakamoto
* 1985–86: Shuji Ushino
* 1987: Motoshi Inoue
* 1988: Takao Sakamoto
* 1989: Takahisa Yoshida
* 1990: Sorin Matei (ROM)
* 1991: Troy Kemp (BAH)
* 1992: Takahisa Yoshida
* 1993: Satoru Nonaka
* 1994: Takahisa Yoshida
* 1995: Michiya Onoe
* 1996: Tomohiro Nomura
* 1997: Takahisa Yoshida
* 1998: Shigeki Toyoshima
* 1999–2000: Takahisa Yoshida
* 2001: Takahiro Kimino
* 2002: Takehiro Uchida
* 2003: Naoyuki Daigo
* 2004: Satoshi Kubota
* 2005–07: Naoyuki Daigo
* 2008: Hikaru Tsuchiya
* 2009: Naoyuki Daigo
* 2010: Hiromi Takahari
* 2011: Naoto Tobe
* 2012–13: Takahari Hiromi
* 2014: Takashi Eto
* 2015: Naoto Tobe
* 2016–18: Takashi Eto
* 2019: Naoto Tobe
* 2020: Tomohiro Shinno
* 2021: Naoto Tobe
* 2022: Tomohiro Shinno
* 2023: Ryoichi Akamatsu

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