Hanami Sekine, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Japanese female long-distance runner
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Place of Birth: Machida, Tokyo, Japan
About Hanami Sekine
- Hanami Sekine (?? ?? (Sekine Hanami); born 26 February 1996) is a Japanese female long-distance runner who competes in track events.
- She competed for Japan at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Born in Tokyo, Sekine showed her promise for distance running by winning a leg at the Inter-Prefectural Women's Ekiden as a junior high school athlete.
- Her first international medal came over 3000 metres at the 2014 Asian Junior Athletics Championships, where she was silver medallist behind Kyrgyz athlete Darya Maslova.
- She continued to perform well in national ekiden competitions, winning her stage at the Inter-Prefectural race in 2014 and 2016, and coming runner-up at the All-Japan Women's Corporate Ekiden Championships in 2015.Sekine showed much improvement on the track in the 2016 season and at the 2016 Japan Championships in Athletics she set a personal best of 31:22.92 minutes to take second behind Ayuko Suzuki in the 10,000 metres, then placed third in the 5000 metres with another best of 15:24.74 minutes.
- She was chosen to represent Japan at the 2016 Summer Olympics over the longer distance.
- At the competition she was near the top of the field in the opening stages, but fell away as the leading pack took on a world record pace.
- She finished 20th, top places behind national rival Yuka Takashima.
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