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Kiyonari Shibata

Japanese middle-distance runner

Kiyonari Shibata
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Japan
East Asian Games
	1997 Busan	1500 m
Asian Athletics Championships
	1998 Fukuoka	1500 m

Kiyonari Shibata (Japanese: 柴田清成; born 27 March 1973) is a Japanese former track and field athlete and middle-distance runner.

He is the current Japanese record holder for the mile run, with a personal best of 3:58.89 minutes.^[1] His time, set on 11 May 1996, made him the second Japanese man to run a sub-four-minute mile, after Takashi Ishii, who had done so nearly twenty years earlier in 1977.^[2] Shibata's 1500 metres best of 3:39.45 minutes is also among the best times for the event by a Japanese, behind Fumikazu Kobayashi and Ishii.^[3]^[4]

Despite his breaking a long-standing national record, Shibata only won at the Japan Championships in Athletics on one occasion, taking the 1500 m title in 1997.^[5] That same year he won a gold medal in the event at the East Asian Games in a then games record time of 3:49.90 minutes.^[6] The following year he won the second and final international medal of his career at the 1998 Asian Athletics Championships by finishing as runner-up behind multiple Asian champion Mohamed Suleiman.^[7] He also ran at the 1998 Asian Games and placed seventh in the 1500 m final.^[8]

He represented his home region, Toyama Prefecture, twice at the All-Japan Interprefectural Ekiden Championships.^[9]

References

^ 男子 Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese). JAAF. Retrieved on 2014-01-01.
^ Phillips, Bob (2010-08-18). The Sub-4 Alphabetic Register Archived 2012-04-17 at the Wayback Machine. Track and Field News. Retrieved on 2014-01-01.
^ Kobayashi sets national 1000m record. IAAF (2005-06-20). Retrieved on 2014-01-01.
^ Kiyonari Shibata. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-01-01.
^ Japanese Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-01-01.
^ East Asian Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-01-01.
^ Asian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-01-01.
^ Daily Results of Asian Games XIII. China People. Retrieved on 2014-01-01.
^ 柴田清成シバタキヨナリひろしま男子駅伝出走履歴. Hiroshima Ekiden. Retrieved on 2014-01-01.