Yuko Gordon

Yuko Gordon (née Hasegawa; Japanese: ユーコ・ゴードン; born 23 February 1951) is a Japan-born Hong Kong long-distance runner who competed mainly in the marathon. She represented her country in that event at the 1984 Summer Olympics and 1983 World Championships in Athletics.[1] She holds a personal best of 2:38:32 hours, set in 1987.[2]

This article is about the athlete. For the Japanese curator, see Yuko Hasegawa (curator).
Yuko Gordon
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Hong Kong
Asian Championships
1985 JakartaMarathon

Competing in the 1980s, she was the first international standard marathon runner from Hong Kong and was twice winner at the Macau Marathon, Hong Kong Marathon and Bangkok Marathon.[3] She was originally from Japan but opted to represent Hong Kong (her adopted nation by marriage) after failing to make the national team, enjoying international competition for the first time in her thirties.[4]

She was a silver medallist in the marathon at the 1985 Asian Athletics Championships, finishing behind India's Asha Agarwal.[5]

She continued running in her later years as a masters athlete and won the women's under-45 category for the 5000 metres at the 1997 World Masters Athletics Championships.[6]

On the 29th September 2019, Yuko broke the world record marathon time in her single age category (68 year old) in the Berlin marathon with the time of 3:19:37.[7]

International competitions
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
1983 World Championships Helsinki, Finland 35th Marathon 2:48:51
1984 Olympic Games Los Angeles, United States 34th Marathon 2:46:12
1985 Asian Championships Jakarta, Indonesia 2nd Marathon 2:54:16
IAAF World Cup Canberra, Australia — 10,000 m DNF
World Marathon Cup Hiroshima, Japan 28th Marathon 2:45:29
1988 World Cross Country Championships Auckland, New Zealand 92nd Senior race 21:15
21st Team 436 pts
IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships Adelaide, Australia 64th 15 km 57:11

Road race wins

See also

References
  1. Yuko Gordon Archived 2011-08-20 at the Wayback Machine. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2017-03-11.
  2. Yuko Gordon Archived 2017-03-12 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2017-03-11.
  3. Yuko Gordon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2017-03-11.
  4. S. F. Lam, Julian W. Chang The quest for gold: fifty years of amateur sports in Hong Kong, 1947-1997 Hong Kong University Press, 2006
  5. Asian Championships Archived 2018-09-23 at the Wayback Machine. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-03-11.
  6. World Masters Championships (Women) Archived 2017-04-06 at the Wayback Machine. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-03-11.
  7. "Single Age Records Marathon". www.arrs.run. Archived from the original on 2020-02-20. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
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